Quotes about Power

And my number-one spiritual practice is trying to live in the present moment … to resist projecting into the future, or lamenting past mistakes … to feel the real power of now. That, my friends, is the secret to a joyful life.

Power to destroy, they also have the power to heal.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.

Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.

Who builds in stone seeks to alter the structure of the universe.