Power Quotes

"The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." "To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows." "Command is lonely." "The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best" "Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom" "Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy" "It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable." "The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power—and no one holds power forever." "History is almost always written by the victors" "Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand" "The greater the state, the more wrong and injustice it commits" "Power is everywhere, not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere" "The mind is the most powerful tool we have for creating the life we want" "There’s so much power in vulnerability. It allows others to connect with us on a deeper level" "A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod"