676 quotes found
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”
“What a curious power words have.”
“The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.”
“It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.”
“The worship of power is an old religion.”
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure powe...”
“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”
“Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
“Power was my weakness and my temptation.”
“You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you...”
“...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.”
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.”
“Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But th...”
“That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price.”
“I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, bar...”
“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”
“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
