Famous quotes containing the words power and/or base:
“It feels good because God has power and if one does as God does enough times, one will become as God is.”
—Michael Mann, U.S. screenwriter. Hannibal Lechtor (Brian Cox)
“You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it—low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion—and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)