Power & Society Sayings

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

The monkeys scream on both banks—it’s unbearable!

I’m so poor I can’t even afford to be sick.

I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role.

I am a simple Soviet man. I was born in a simple family, and I have grown up under the Soviet government.

The lure of the unknown is too strong to resist.

We are facing a grave emergency. We are being drawn into a war that is not our war.

And you must know that in this kingdom of Bengal, there are many eunuchs. For the king is a great connoisseur of these, and has them in great numbers.

I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men, and govern them as I pleased.

I have not come for such reasons. I have come to take away from them their gold and their silver, and to do with them what I will.

The king has sent me, and I must obey.

The Sultan of this country has a thousand wives, and he treats them all equally.

The revolution is a serious struggle. We must not make light of it.

I can assure you that I am not a dictator. I am a democrat.

We do hereby abolish the Republican party, and command that no more attention be paid to it.

It is not by the means of a religion that we can conquer nature, but by the means of nature that we can conquer religion.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

I am not a dictator. I am the President of the Philippines. I rule with the consent of the governed.