Power Quotes

I had tasted power and I had used it up, but now I would get more of another kind. We would share it, and keep each other from the dark.

~ E.k. Johnston

Word-Power'Being stuck in my room,I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now

~ Munia Khan

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

~ Wendell Berry

The only way to stop a malignant narcissist with sadistic tendencies is to deprive them of that which they desire...Never to yield...Never to surrender and never to relinquish any personal power.

~ Anita B. Sulser

O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.

~ John Webster

Power is a funny thing. Sometimes you can just take it.

~ Megan Mayhew Bergman

One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and Eve's.

~ Matthew Desmond

Every exercise of power incorporates a faint, almost imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can only dominate another human soul if one knows, understands, and with the utmost tact despises the person one is subjugating.

~ Sándor Márai

We are the Dragon-Hearted.

~ Rachel L. Schade

The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it—they are powerless to deny it while still claiming to be rational. In principle, it is the ideas themselves that are, as we say, compelling, but their champions are not always averse to helping the ideas along with tactics of verbal dominance, among them intimidation (“Clearly . . .”), threat (“It would be unscientific to . . .”), authority (“As Popper showed . . .”), insult (“This work lacks the necessary rigor for . . .”), and belittling (“Few people today seriously believe that . . .”). Perhaps this is why H. L. Mencken wrote that “college football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students.

~ Steven Pinker

I remember a time when all I wanted was a gun and to learn how to use it. I thought a gun would make me feel safe. I thought a gun would make me feel powerful. But right now I just feel . . . heavy. Like I live in this world of death and destruction and I’ll never escape alive.

~ Paula Stokes

A woman armed with ancestral wisdom is a powerful force. You'll find her powers come from within, she is in tune with her spirit, and the magic of the universe. She trusts, values and follows her intuition.

~ Lori Bregman

It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.

~ Yeonmi Park

Struggle of power is natural in human because with power their individuality prevails over others.

~ Zaman Ali

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.

~ Jim Butcher

In business, everyone has a different weight.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

There are two forces at work in the world: the power of light and the power of darkness.

~ Seth Adam Smith

This is the miracle of all miracles—when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic.

~ Seth Adam Smith

The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.

~ Thomas Pynchon

Having more data does not always give you the power to make better decisions.

~ Jeffrey Fry

We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Repose is the most expansive posture you can assume. When you are in Repose, your body is as open and extended as it can be. If the power of a pose is determined by how large it makes your body feel and appear, then Repose should be viewed as the ultimate high-power pose.

~ Victor Shamas

Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you

~ Sunday Adelaja

Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem nations

~ Sunday Adelaja

The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

~ Charles Eisenstein

God has given you the power to be the miracle worker.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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~ Qwana Reynolds-Frasier

STAY THE COURSE BY FORCE!

~ Qwana Reynolds-Frasier

But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

To tell a story is to take power over it.

~ Mark Doty

Women have participated in almost every fight for freedom. They were there when civilians were targeted they were there when the bombs were planted. To argue they didn't have enough power to speak up or they had been brainwashed by their male colleagues is to try to disassociate from the darkness that resides in everyone. And to disassociate from your darkness is to lose your power over it.

~ Jessa Crispin

Power is like prostitution and it could have pleasure for a while but it has to go to another man

~ Zaman Ali

Nobody cared for her until the time she touched everyone like a breeze, but the day she turned into a storm and swept everything on her way out, the world stood still. She was a nightmare none had ever across.

~ Akshay Vasu

everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent

~ Michel Foucault

She dropped the things she was holding and desperately grabbed onto the table for support, but not before she hit the dresser directly with her stomach. The collision was hard. She expected pain. She expected to scream out. She expected to curdle up on the floor and whimper in agony.But she didn't.She gasped when she saw that due to the impact, the dresser had a minuscule dent. She didn't even feel the hit.

~ Deepika Kumaaraguru

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal repercussions, was superior to any other form of power.

~ Louise Erdrich

MIND YOUR OWN SOCIAL MEDIA BUSINESS

~ Qwana Reynolds-Frasier

That was Emma—she'd have enjoyed knowing she had something like that, something that could blow her whole fucking life and mine apart if it came out. Her little bit of power.

~ J.p. Delaney

TO LIVE A LIFE VOID OF NEED ISA LIFE FILLED WITH DEPRIVATION

~ Qwana Reynolds-Frasier

WORDS HAVE NO EXPIRATION DATE, YOU CAN EAT THEM WHENEVER YOU WANT.SO BE SURE TO MAKE EM' YUMMY!

~ Qwana Reynolds-Frasier