Quotes about Power

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.

Satan hath power to assume a pleasing form. Them big blue eyes. Knew more ways to turn a man's head than the devil's grandmother. I dont know where they learn it at. Hell, she wasnt but seventeen.

What runs so contrary to received wisdom is that it really is the male who is the aesthete while the woman is drawn to abstractions. Wealth. Power. What a man seeks is beauty, plain and simple. No other way to put it. The rustle of her clothes, her scent. The sweep of her hair across his naked stomach. Categories all but meaningless to a woman. Lost in her calculations.

Concentrated populations of the deranged assume certain powers. It has an unsettling effect. You spend some time in a nuthouse and you'll see.