Power Quotes

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an ordinary individual did ’em.

~ Joe Hill

Let your heart sing from those wounded places.When you sing your song with everything you've got,it will not only heal you, but it will heal all of us through you.

~ Gemma B. Benton

That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.

~ Donna Tartt

Under his feet he felt the hillroots going down and down into the dark, and over his head he saw the dry, far fires of the stars. Between, all things were his to order, to command. He stood at the center of the world.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.

~ Liu Cixin

I’ve come to believe that the function of torture in our society is not about getting information, in spite of what we might want to believe. It is merely about power. It tells the world that there is now no limit to what we will do when we feel threatened.

~ Nick Flynn

What the famous big blue Boy Scout told to a green Kryptonite? What?? YOU rock!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Expressing our feelings out loud, especially to someone else, can bring a sense of relief. There is power in proclamation.

~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless

~ Isha Karki

Power engenders the evil-minded who ill-treat the needy in all parts of the world.

~ Sylvia Iparraguirre

[W]e would do better to treat terrorists as common criminals, people who have broken the laws recognized by all civil societies. To treat them as soldiers is to increase their power, respectability, and commitment.

~ Nel Noddings

The power to heal is all in the hug.

~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell

Each of you are a voice. Together we are a choir, a powerful choir of change that circles the globe with love.

~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell

The crowd, in fact, is composed of individuals; it must therefore be in every man's power to become what he is, an individual. From becoming an individual no one, no one at all, is excluded, except he who excludes himself by becoming a crowd. To become a crowd, to collect a crowd about one, is on the contrary to affirm the distinctions of human life. The most well-meaning person who talks about these distinctions can easily offend an individual. But then it is not the crowd which possesses power, influence, repute, and mastery over men, but it is the invidious distinctions of human life which despotically ignore the single individual as the weak and impotent, which in a temporal and worldly interest ignore the eternal truth- the single individual.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

God has the Power to make it happen. You have the Authority to make it happen. So stop complaining, get up, & manifest your destiny.

~ Tony Warrick

There’s no matter here you can’t re-matter into love.

~ Laurie Perez

[T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

~ Albert Cossery

I have realized that the world and its people will never be perfect; and thus, I have grown wiser. I have learned that every aspect of life owns an injustice. I have seen that every human soul is laudable. Thus, you have the power to be enlightened.

~ Kylee Carrier

God, what would someone so afraid do with power so awful?

~ Apollo Blake

There is power in a King's blood.

~ George R.r. Martin

We live in an era where the best way to make a dent on the world may no longer be to write a letter to the editor or publish a book. It may be simply to stand up and say something . . . because both the words and the passion with which they are delivered can now spread across the world at warp speed.

~ Chris J. Anderson

Love has the power to create an inviting space in the lives of people. But if daily routine kills dreamy or passionate thoughts, the constraint of the room may become oppressive and the emptiness unbearable. The room loses then its original fullness and turns into a place of nothingness. ( Another empty room )

~ Erik Pevernagie

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. After all, there is nothing to stop it.

~ Owen Jones

Structurally, by reason of their smaller numbers and greater resources, virtually all ruling classes enjoy an advantage over the ruled in their capacity for collective action. Their internal lines of communication are more compact; their wealth offers an all-purpose medium of power, convertible into any number of forms of domination; their intelligence systems scan the political landscape from a greater height. More numerous and more dispersed, less equipped materially, less armed culturally, subordinate classes always tend, in the sociologist Michael Mann’s phrase, to be ‘organisationally outflanked

~ Perry Anderson

In precisely the same way the specialty of government is not to obey, but to enforce obedience. And a government is only a government so long as it can make itself obeyed, and therefore it always strives for that and will never willingly abandon its power.

~ Leo Tolstoy

It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.

~ David Brin

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

~ Mark Burnett

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

~ Katherine Graham

Why would a god sacrifice her life if she was God? Just show real power and send an army of angels and there'd be no debate.

~ Peter Tieryas

We must find within us a happiness with ourselves which no one else can disturb. Otherwise we give them power over us.

~ Aleksandra Layland

The power of belief gives legitimacy to whatever may be necessary.

~ Steven Redhead

Where God is like the sun, the Devil is like a raindrop. There is no 'God vs. Satan' because they aren't even that close in power and authority. The former is very patient; the latter is at mercy.

~ Criss Jami

In a healthy relationship, vulnerability is wonderful. It leads to increased intimacy and closer bonds. When a healthy person realizes that he or she hurt you, they feel remorse and they make amends. It’s safe to be honest. In an abusive system, vulnerability is dangerous. It’s considered a weakness, which acts as an invitation for more mistreatment. Abusive people feel a surge of power when they discover a weakness. They exploit it, using it to gain more power. Crying or complaining confirms that they’ve poked you in the right spot.

~ Christina Enevoldsen

Some of us believe that God is almighty, and can do everything; and that he is all wise, and may do everything; but that he is all love, and will do everything— there we draw back.

~ Julian Of Norwich

A woman should always know her place, and it's exactly wherever she wants to be.

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

Being idolized and being torn down felt oddly similar. They both made me feel alone.Friendship and trust should be earned, and when you're famous, people seem to want to give them to you whether you've earned them or not, and it felt dishonest to me. Fame was not real. It was all a projection—fame made me a blank canvas that people projected their love, lust, troubles, self-worth, and desire upon. Fame and power do not change us, they amplify us.

~ Jewel

Power is the gem of necessity. Without observing power, identity remains undiscovered.

~ Lionel Suggs

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.

~ John Vasconcellos

In the beginning, there was nothing. Then, out of the nothing came the Word and the Word was power. Every utterance of the Word gave form to the Void, starting with beings to utter the Word. There was no Adam, no Eve, and no need. What Man named was.

~ Thomm Quackenbush