Power

"Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it." "لكل نظام سلطة في العالم مصلحة راسخة في إضعاف فردانية رعاياه، ويسعى جاهداً إلى إضعافها أو، إن أمكن، إخمادها تماماً."

"But I could control these flames. It was an irresistible urge, one that I didn’t want to ignore. - Aurora" "ولكنني كنت أستطيع التحكم بهذه النيران. لقد كانت رغبة لا تُقاوَم، رغبة لم أرد تجاهلها. - أورورا"

"If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them." "إذا أردت أن تدفأ، فعليك أن تقف قرب النار؛ وإذا أردت أن تبتل، فعليك أن تنزل في الماء. وإذا أردت الفرح والقوة والسلام والحياة الأبدية، فعليك أن تقترب، بل أن تدخل، في الشيء الذي يمتلكها."

"... Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabbed him through the heart. To him it was the sound of lost faith and it was unendurable. He felt he’d become a kind of god in her eyes, and it was simply impossible to give up her adoration." "...مرة أخرى، لم تبدُ وكأنها تسمع، ظلت تنظر في عيني كَيل. ثم ببطء، وبلا أمل، خفضت بصرها. "أنا أفهم"، قالت. كان ذلك، بالطبع، ما اخترقه وكأنها طعنته في الصميم. كان ذلك الصوت في أذنيه صوت إيمان ضائع، وكان لا يُطاق. شعر وكأنه قد أصبح نوعًا من الإله في عينيها، وكان من المستحيل ببساطة التخلي عن عبادتها له."

"Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires." "التغيير هو القوة الأجدى المتاحة لك؛ ما عليك سوى أن تُغيّر الأشياء التي لا ترغب فيها، مستبدلاً إياها برغباتك الحقيقية."

"Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one."

"I rather fight for light then to go blind in night."

"Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it."

"To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive."

"Power isn't free. Energy isn't free. It has to be earned."

"I am the witch of my mystical world."

"It's called the Infinity Effect."

"Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936)"

"The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?"

"The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power."

"I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything."

"THE EMPRESS LO was not beautiful but she was ambitious and, sometimes, ambition can take you further than beauty. The women of the court never wondered how she got this far because as all women know, the rise to power is relatively simple ~ especially if it is a man who has control. ~ from the Three Lives of Empress Lo. Forthcoming."

"Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow."

"Today's politicians are like policemen on traffic duty. They are just dealing with traffic right in front of them. Yet they want to be the Superintendent based on that alone. The politicians and the bigwigs in finance have no ambition. There are too many who confuse the power that they got by their position as their own ability."

"He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne."