676 quotes found
“If you can abuse your power you have too much.”
“Power is the near neighbour of necessity.”
“Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing...”
“A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam o...”
“Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.”
“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
“Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must”
“The world is a much more beautiful and incredible place than you think, and each of us has a great deal of power to make it more so.”
“Crowds exhibit a docile respect for force, And are but slightly impressed by kindness, Which for them is scarcely other than a form of weakness. Their sympathies have never been bestowed upon easy ...”
“Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and theref...”
“Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.”
“Power changes its appearance but not its reality.”
“Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.”
“When a man may whisper in a close ear, and that whisper be repeated far away and many moons later, then he has power. When a many may speak against another, and that other be brought to ruin and ru...”
“Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.”
“In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or ...”
“Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.”
“One is always a good master when one isnt the master”
“The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.”
“[P]ower is at its most potent when it can operate silently.”
