Power Quotes
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Everybody wants to rule the world. Click on any power quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."Source: Revelation 6:2-8 | Speaker: John The Revelator
"And that's how you play "Get the Guests.""Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Speaker: George
"And unto the uttermost part of the earth."Source: Acts of the Apostles | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth
"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid."Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey | Speaker: HAL 9000
"Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did."Source: "I'm Still Standing" | Speaker: Elton John
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."Source: Coraline | Author: Neil Gaiman & G.K. Chesterton
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."Source: Critique of the Gotha Program | Author: Karl Marx
"Get up offa that thing and dance 'till you feel better!"Source: Get Up Offa That Thing | Speaker: James Brown
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."Source: Psalms 46:1-3 | Author: Author of Psalms
"Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball."Source: Good Golly Miss Molly | Speaker: Little Richard
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."Source: Misquoted | Speaker: Winston Churchill
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."Source: Televised Press Conference | Speaker: Bill Clinton
"I said you wanna be startin' somethin', you gotta be startin' something."Source: "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" | Speaker: Michael Jackson
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: The Wicked Witch of the West
"I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give"Source: I Will Survive | Speaker: Gloria Gaynor
"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature."Source: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians | Author: Paul of Tarsus
"If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change."Source: "Man in the Mirror" | Speaker: Michael Jackson
"In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."Source: Proverbs 3:6 | Author: King Solomon
"In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."Source: Matthew 28:19 | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth
"Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred"Source: The Charge of the Light Brigade | Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"Source: A Clockwork Orange | Author: Anthony Burgess
"It is much safer for a prince to be feared than loved."Source: The Prince | Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."Source: The Origin of the Species | Speaker: Charles Darwin
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Author: J.K. Rowling
"It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you […] persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses."Source: 1984 | Author: George Orwell
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."Source: A Tale of Two Cities | Author: Charles Dickens
"I’d rather be a hammer than a nail"Source: "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" | Speaker: Simon and Garfunkel
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."Source: Trade Mart speech (undelivered) | Speaker: John F. Kennedy
"Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing."Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Author: Ken Kesey
"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Speaker: Reverend Sykes
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast."Source: The Mourning Bride | Author: William Congreve
"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."Source: Problems of War and Strategy | Speaker: Mao Zedong
"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause."Source: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | Speaker: Senator Padmé Amidala
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."Source: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography | Author: Booker T. Washington
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."Source: 1984 | Author: George Orwell
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."Source: Speech to the Mayor and Councilmen of Atlanta (1864) | Speaker: William Tecumseh Sherman
"We are the champions, my friends, and we'll keep on fighting 'til the end."Source: We Are the Champions | Speaker: Queen
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."Source: Letter to William Henry Harrison | Author: Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
"When in the course of human events…"Source: Declaration of Independence | Author: Thomas Jefferson
"When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, "No, I went to films.""Source: Interview with Andrew Walker of BBC News | Speaker: Quentin Tarantino
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."Source: 1984 | Author: George Orwell