Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

So long as no one knows everything about you, you have resources you can call upon for which no one is really prepared.

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

Power is dangerous for those who do not have it.

The primary object of every elite, or ruling class, is to maintain its own power and privilege.

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

Power protects power.

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.

The people who exercise the power are not always the same people over whom it is exercised.

All power is intolerant of sharing.

The White House seems to be a sound-proof booth.

Government is founded on property, property is founded on conquest, and conquest is founded on Power — and Power is founded on brain and brawn

…property in fact generally confers power, though the possessor of it may not have much more wit than a mole or a mugwash…

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority.

Knowledge is a form of power and most institutions exhibit an understandable reluctance to dissipate this power in the absence of compensating advantages

When I go see a basketball game, I'm always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi.

In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.

Money buys access; access buys influence.

It feels good to be awake, knowing others are asleep. Makes you feel like the night is not for everyone, just a chosen few.

She knew too much. -A