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When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

~ Euripides

Euripides Administration Deceit Deception Elections Evil False Promises Falsehood Government Power Seduction Tyranny

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell Power

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!

~ William Hutchison Murray

William Hutchison Murray Boldness Committed Creatiion Initiative Magic Power Providence

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

~ J.k. Rowling

J.k. Rowling Power Temptation Weakness

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dare Power

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has done is, allowed under it's, his church, his wing, all kinds of corruptions and villainies to grow and fester. In the name of that God terrible wars have been waged, in the name of that God terrible sexism has been allowed to spread. There are children being born all across this world that don't have enough food to eat because that God, at least his church, tells the mothers and fathers that they must procreate at all costs, and to prevent procreation with a condom is in contravention with his laws. Now, I don't believe that God exists. I think that God is creation of men, by men, and for men. What has happened over the many centuries now, the better part of two thousand in fact, is that that God has been slowly and steadily accruing power. His church has been accruing power, and the men who run that church, and they are all men, are not about to give it up. If they give it up, they give up luxury, they give up comfort.

~ Clive Barker

Clive Barker Absurdity Atheism Atheist Atrocity Christian Theology Church Comfort Corruption Crime Horror Luxury Power Sexism Terrible Theology Villainous

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

~ Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill Achievement Desire Power

You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, Enough!

~ Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah Power Self Esteem Strength

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.

~ Robert Greene

Robert Greene Power Power Of Words Psychology

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

~ Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Power Protest Truth Telling

Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Power

That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price.

~ Kelley Armstrong

Kelley Armstrong Power The Summoning

I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart. If she cannot herself obtain access to the Snow Queen, and remove the glass fragments from little Kay, we can do nothing to help her.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen Power Strength

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Justification Power Wisdom In War

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

~ Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson Love Power Surrender

If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Susan Elizabeth Phillips Body Brain Power Powerful

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

~ Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel Power Self Control

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

~ Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert Corruption Power

I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson Corrupts Epics Heroes Power Save

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Excellence Greatness Legacy Power Revenge Righteousness Seek Vengeance Victory

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

~ George R.r. Martin

George R.r. Martin A Dance With Dragons Cersei Lannister Greed Love Power Tyrion Lannister

Of course I need you. I go insane when I see you. You can do almost anything you wish with me. Is that what you want to hear? Almost, Dominique. And the things you couldn't make me do — you could put me through hell if you demanded them and I had to refuse you, as I would. Through utter hell, Dominique. Does that please you? Why do you want to know whether you own me? It's so simple. Of course you do. All of me that can be owned. You'll never demand anything else. But you want to know whether you could make me suffer. You could. What of it? The words did not sound like surrender, because they were not torn out of him, but admitted simply and willingly. She felt no thrill of conquest; she felt herself owned more than ever, by a man who could say these things, know them to be true, and still remain controlled and controlling — as she wanted him to remain.

~ Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Intense Own Power

So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken away so that you, too, can have power?

~ Kiersten White

Kiersten White Huma Lada Power Sacrifice

There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

Idowu Koyenikan Communal Communal Life Communality Community Community Building Community Development Cooperate Cooperation Cooperation And Attitude Group Work Power Team Team Building Team Management Team Spirit Teammates Teams Teamwork Work Together Working Together Working Together As One

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

~ Otto Von Bismarck

Otto Von Bismarck Democracy Elections Government Political Science Politics Observation Politics Science Politicsics Power Responsibility

I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Jennifer Donnelly Acting Laughter Love Power

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

~ Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Power Words

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Power

At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat.

~ J.k. Rowling

J.k. Rowling Awesome Badass Dumbledore Harry Potter J K Rowling Power Powerful

Words have power.

~ Mira Grant

Mira Grant Communication Language Persuasion Power Words

Do the thing and you will have the power.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Action Do It Power You Can Do It

I thought the love I'd had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted to be again. I'd tried to bury that girl and the love she'd felt, just as I'd tried to bury my power. But I wouldn't make that mistake again.

~ Leigh Bardugo

Leigh Bardugo Foolish Lonely Love Power

Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Intimidation Power

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

~ Robert Fulghum

Robert Fulghum Ignorance Power Pride

Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.

~ Robert Thier

Robert Thier Oceans Power Ships Trade Travel World Domination

Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

~ George R.r. Martin

George R.r. Martin Martin Power

You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself

~ Amari Soul

Amari Soul Power Strength

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

~ Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass Activism Agitation Dissent Liberties Power Radicalism Rights

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

~ Gregory Corso

Gregory Corso Power Slacker Slackers Slacking Standing Waiting

The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.

~ William Booth

William Booth Grace Meekness Power Sovereignty Of God Strength Surrender
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