Power quotes

“Do you know the oldest lie in America, Senator? It's that power can be innocent.”
Jesse Eisenberg - Lex Luthor

“Legend has it she's a being of unimaginable powers. Now she's using you to regain them.”

Annabelle Wallis - Jenny Halsey

“- Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: You will be Elizabeth, Queen of England. A court to worship you, a country to obey you, poems written celebrating your beauty, music composed in your honor, and they will mean nothing to you. I will mean nothing to you.
- Elizabeth I: How could you ever be nothing to me? You know you are everything to me.”
Joseph Fiennes - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I

“What do you call the only man who can arm the most powerful weapon in the world? The most powerful man in the world. You proud of me yet?”

Corey Stoll - Darren Cross

“- Cardinal Richelieu: Things couldn't be more perfect if I planned them myself. The King of France dies at the hands of his own personal guard. Grief stricken, terrified, the hudled masses turn for comfort to their devout spiritual leader who, ever so humbly, assumes the throne. With the Queen by his side.
- Queen Anne: I would rather die!
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tim Curry - Cardinal Richelieu
Gabrielle Anwar - Queen Anne

“You know what? Don't hate, appreciate! U just mad because I'm always on the [blows whistle] crime scene.”
Mike Epps - Day-Day

I call this "the agentic state". The individual yields to authority, and in doing so becomes alienated from his own actions.

Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“- Matt Gavin: There's only three fun things in life, paisà: money, sex and power.
- David Corelli: Two out of three's not bad.”
Chazz Palminteri - Matt Gavin
David Caruso - David Corelli

“- Kreon: Are you ready to kill?
- Korda: Yes, father!
- Kreon: Any man with a weapon, can commit murder, but it's such a waste. A sorceror's son, must learn to use the power of death, to control the force of life. This, is the source of our power.”
Felix Ward - Kreon
A.J. Lowenthal - Korda

“This is my test subject, Mike Nelson - a disgustingly mild-mannered dope who's managed to survive every film I've subjected him to. But, perhaps, this movie will drive him to the breaking point and crush his soul. And then I'll unleash it on an unwitting public, and then I will rule the world!”
Trace Beaulieu - Dr. Clayton Forrester

“You see, in this business... the keys to the kingdom is weapons-grade plutonium.”

Steven Seagal - Jonathan Cold

“The techniques change, the victims change, but it's still a question. How do these things happen? How are they institutionalized?”
Pascal Yen-Pfister - Serge Moscovici

“The MGM lot is the Baghdad of filmdom.”
Frank Capra

“If the lion knows its own strength, no man could control it.”
Jeremy Northam - Sir Thomas More

“I know what it feels like. It feels good. The power. Everything. But you'll lose yourself. It'll destroy you. Let it go.”

Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker

“The bow and arrow once was the pinnacle of weapons technology. It was used by Genghis Khan to forge an empire that stretched across Asia, from the wintry woods of Ukraine to the Eastern shores of Korea. Now, whoever holds the weapons manufactured by Stark Industries rules the world... and soon, it will be my turn.”
Faran Tahir - Raza

“This harmony we achieved is now under attack from a small but extremely dangerous group of individuals. We call them Divergents. They are, in essence, the worst of what humanity used to be. Rebellious, defiant, and uncontrollable.”

Kate Winslet - Jeanine

“Everyday I wake up knowing that no matter how many lives I protect, no matter how many people call me a hero, someone even more powerful could change everything.”
Andrew Garfield - Peter Parker

“Right now I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself.”
John Morton - Rebel Force Dak (Luke's Gunner)

“My name is Poppy Adams, CEO of the Golden Circle. We engage in an aggressive business strategy, invest in the latest technology and take strict, disciplinary action. I'm speaking to you today because our world leaders have let us all down, so we are coming out of the shadows and taking over. And to make sure no one gets in our way... Kingsman is...” (continue)(continue reading)
Julianne Moore - Poppy

“- Christian Grey: The key to my success has been in identifying talented individuals and harnessing their efforts.
- Anastasia Steele: So you're a control freak?
- Christian Grey: Oh, I exercise control in all things, Miss Steele.”
Jamie Dornan - Christian Grey
Dakota Johnson - Anastasia Steele

Our credo: "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc". We gladly feast on those who would subdue us. Not just pretty words.
Anjelica Huston - Morticia Addams

“I'm human. I'm flawed. But I embrace change... and enhancement. Now there's nothing I can't do. Nothing. Nothing I can't know. Nothing I can't be.”
Michael Wincott - Dr. Osmond

Something happened, I don't know what it is, but now every time I say "What if" about something it comes true, and back there I said "What if the the house blows up?", and it blew up! Wow, I have this tremendous responsibility! What if I lose this power? Oh no, I just said "What if I lose this power?". Damn it, I had it, then I lost it!
Rob Schneider - Iggy

“Never become more popular than the boss, unless you intend to sack him.”
Ian McNeice - Baron Vladimir Harkonnen