Albert Camus Quotes

The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world.

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

Everyone hates his own conqueror.

The man is king. The man is supreme.

Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump. It's everyone who's ever doubted Donald, who's ever disagreed, whoever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.

A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

Conquest is easy. Control is not.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

As they spread out their blankets, Saphira commented with satisfaction, We are becoming more powerful, Eragon, both of us. Soon no one will be able to stand in our way. Yes, but which way shall we choose? Whichever one we want, she said smugly, settling down for the night.

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.

When I was on Raw, I was like Julius Caesar, an all-powerful conquering hero who became so powerful that everyone around him had to conspire against him.

Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.