Power Quotes

First unite yourself to unite everyone.

~ Aribazafar

Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives, words and ideas change the world.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing when you are nervous or uncomfortable, just speak your truth. Instead of acting like everything is all right, proclaim it isn't alright, and talk about your feelings! Honor your truth. Honor yourself. Be real.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The use of power is not to be taken lightly, for it is never without consequence.

~ Emily Thorne

If you can remember why you started, then you will know why you must continue.

~ Chris Burkmenn

When you blame others, you are affirming that you have no power, and your existence is only a reaction to the power of others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Power...Born out of nature, Coveted by men; Wars rage on, And victors are crowned. But true power can never be lost or won. True power comes from within.

~ Emily Thorne

You may bend, but you will not be broken.

~ Chris Burkmenn

She understood now that while it had been wrong to kill Cansrel, it had also been right. The boy with the strange eyes had helped her to see the rightness of it. The boy who'd killed Archer. Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too terrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done.I forgive myself, though Fire. Today, I forgive myself.

~ Kristin Cashore

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in order to take his piece of bread is, albeit guiltless, further from the model ofthinking man than the most primitive pigmy or the most vicious sadist.

~ Primo Levi

People will have their opinions of you, but you must be able to distinguish theirs from yours.

~ Chris Burkmenn

absolute power is corrupting

~ Richard Wright

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words I still love you after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Your greatest disappointment will often lead you to your greatest appointment.

~ Chris Burkmenn

And it is a strange thing about love... it is that it can take a strength that would seem otherwise insignificant and transform it into a hardly quenchable power.

~ Steven J. Carroll

What you feel, and what is real – all just a matter of perspective.

~ Chris Burkmenn

Being powerful means shifting our minds away from our troubles and into solution-thinking.

~ Bryant Mcgill

For years I wondered what was her curious power, her ability to attract all kinds of people to her and to use them for her own ends, often with their knowledge. i think it was that people liked watching and being with someone who enjoyed life as much as Sylvia seemed to enjoy it. She squeezed all the juice from the orange, or, to change the figure, drained the cup to the leaves, the very dregs.

~ Elizabeth Winder

Don’t give someone the credit for holding you back. Give yourself the power in continuing to move forward.

~ Chris Burkmenn

Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and madness; but sex it is always about comfort, pleasure and power.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his life formed part of the rituals of his power. The disciplinary methods reversed this relation, lowered the threshold of describable individuality and made of this description a means of control and a method of domination.

~ Michel Foucault

They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privilege to a few individuals in a state of slavery, exacting in exchange the betrayal of a natural solidarity with theircomrades, there will certainly be someone who will accept. He will be withdrawn from the common law and will become untouchable; the more power that he is given, the more he will be consequently hateful andhated. When he is given the command of a group of unfortunates, with the right of life or death over them, he will be cruel and tyrannical, because he will understand that if he is not sufficiently so, someone else, judged more suitable, will take over his post.Moreover, his capacity for hatred, unfulfilled in the direction of the oppressors, will double back, beyond all reason, on the oppressed; and he will only be satisfied when he has unloaded onto his underlings the injury received from above.

~ Primo Levi

The sky is not the limit

~ Jennifer Kathleen Phillips

Knowledge is power but too much power tends to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

~ Sidy Sidique

You are powerful, if you choose to be.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance.

~ Bryant Mcgill

People can only have power over you if you are seeking to have power over others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Writing has the power of permanence.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Your power and brilliance is the the most awesome force life could muster.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not the result of some obscurely accepted law of retaliation. It was the effect, in the rites of punishment, of a certain mechanism of power: of a power that not only did not hesitate to exert itself directly on bodies, but was exalted and strengthened by its visible manifestations; of a power that asserted itself as an armed power whose functions of maintaining order were not entirely unconnected with the functions of war; of a power that presented rules and obligations as personal bonds, a breach of which constituted an offence and called for vengeance; of a power for which disobedience was an act of hostility, the first sign of rebellion, which is not in principle different from civil war; of a power that had to demonstrate not why it enforced its laws, but who were its enemies, and what unleashing of force threatened them; of a power which, in the absence of continual supervision, sought a renewal of its effect in the spectacle of its individual manifestations; of a power that was recharged in the ritual display of its reality as 'super-power'.

~ Michel Foucault

You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are in desperate need.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their blindness. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave is astounding.

~ Vasily Grossman

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp

~ James S.a. Corey

Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

...empathy is the most important power there is. Without it, we are doomed. With it, we can truly change the world.(interview from USC)

~ #Name?

Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power, and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.

~ Karl Jaspers

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

~ Aldous Huxley