Power Quotes

You are the most powerful tool in your life. Use your energy, your thoughts and your magick wisely!

~ Dacha Avelin

Those who rule have always had an interest in shaping the perceptions of those they wish to rule. But never in the history of humanity has their toolbox been so full. Advances in technology and psychology have enabled the messages of the rulers to permeate our consciousness to a degree no prior society could have imagined.

~ James Rozoff

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

~ Frank Herbert

There is no transparency, Marus. It can’t exist. Surveillance doesn’t go both ways. There are those who watch, and those who are watched; the powerful, and the powerless.

~ Celeste Chaney

Any fool with ambition and heartlessness can be a ruler.

~ Tomichan Matheikal

Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering.

~ Nobuyuki Fukumoto

Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreography both quick-footed and wary

~ Chris Matthews

My question is whether America can overcome the fatal arrogance of power.

~ J. William Fulbright (Senator)

They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.

~ Dinos Christianopoulos

Money is only one kind of power. Faith is power, too. Love is power. Slaughter and madness are both roads to power. Certainly, symbols are power – you wear one wherever you go, that purse you carry. And you wear others when you decide to dress yourself, how to look at men and women, how to carry your body and direct your gaze. And all these symbols can raise people to labour or war.

~ Seth Dickinson

And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?

~ Rainbow Rowell

Aphrodite just kept smiling.Because she was just doing what a goddess does-the same way that a tornado rips houses apart or a fire burns down a forest.

~ L.j. Smith

You want power-either because you've already had a taste of it and want more, or because you've been made to feel powerless for too long.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

In our hearts we know that with a different fate, we, too, could be in the ranks of the dispossessed, stripped of our identities and belonging nowhere. The refugee becomes a sinister symbol of what can quickly happen once personhood is denied and people are transformed into disposable units of contemptible impediments to the greed or power-mongering of others.

~ Dave Mearns

God is the light bulb, to where faith is the light switch.

~ Anthony Liccione

The institution of monarchy developed during the Middle Ages against the backdrop of the previously endemic struggles between feudal power agencies. The monarchy presented itself as a referee, aa power capable of putting an end to war, violence, and pillage and saying no to these struggles and private feuds. It made itself acceptable by allocating itself a juridical and negative function, albeit one whose limits it naturally began at once to overstep.

~ Michel Foucault

The cosmos does not require God, Laplace said to himself. But Emperors require Him. All those who seek to subjugate human beings in one form or another require Him. Science does not need God.

~ Tomichan Matheikal

Everything will be fine in the end. If it's not fine, it's not the end.

~ Jb Carlson

Any power that doesn’t give you benefit is not a power.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions.

~ Robert Greene

You have goodness in your heart, but your darkness overwhelms it all; your desire to hurt, destroy, and avenge is more powerful than your desire to love, help, and light the way.

~ Marie Lu

There is no greater power and support you can give someone than to look them in the eye, and with sincerity/conviction say, 'I believe in you.

~ Ken Poirot

Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.

~ Terry Pratchett

In a sense, I am a moralist, insofar as I believe that one of the tasks, one of the meanings of human existence—the source of human freedom—is never to accept anything as definitive, untouchable, obvious, or immobile. No aspect of reality should be allowed to become a definitive and inhuman law for us. We have to rise up against all forms of power—but not just power in the narrow sense of the word, referring to the power of a government or of one social group over another: these are only a few particular instances of power. Power is anything that tends to render immobile and untouchable those things that are offered to us as real, as true, as good

~ Michel Foucault

The powerful are like a compressor, they will grind into paste everything on their way

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

And then there were men who were violently afraid of losing to a woman, the scariest men in the world. They become dictators, heads of state, bureaucrats, men with deadly weapons, they were everywhere. Sometimes she could pick one out with a look, but they were often charming, they had to have the power to attract in order to dominate.

~ Haven Kimmel

I have not spent my time studying the problem of race—race itself is just a restatement and retrenchment of the problem. You see this from time to time when some dullard—usually believing himself white—proposes that the way forward is a grand orgy of black and white, ending only when we are all beige and thus the same race. But a great number of black people already are beige. And the history of civilization is littered with dead races (Frankish, Italian, German, Irish) later abandoned because they no longer serve their purpose—the organization of people beneath, and beyond, the umbrella of rights.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.

~ Aspen Matis

To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.

~ Sherwood Anderson

All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.

~ Alasdair Macintyre

You have been given a great power. But no power comes without a price. That is how magic works. How the universe works. All things kept in balance.

~ Mindee Arnett

There's magic in stories, magic in hope, and magic in coming together. I have learnt from people's stories, been inspired by their hope, and been strengthened by their coming together.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

No, I am not powerful nor do I wish to be, for it is God using my weakness that makes me potent and I would never wish to surrender that.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Why did McNamara have such good figures? Why did McNamara have such good staff work and Ball such poor staff work? The next day Ball would angrily dispatch his staff to come up with the figures, to find out how McNamara had gotten them, and the staff would burrow away and occasionally find that one of the reasons that Ball did not have comparable figures was that they did not always exist. McNamara had invented them, he dissembled even within the bureaucracy, though, of course, always for a good cause. It was part of his sense of service. He believed in what he did, and thus the morality of it was assured, and everything else fell into place. It was all right to lie and dissemble for the right causes. It was part of service, loyalty to the President, not to the nation, not to colleagues, it was a very special bureaucratic-corporate definition of integrity; you could do almost anything you wanted as long as it served your superior.

~ David Halberstam

When I was researching the book Toxic Electricity, I would see biological reactions for up to a week afterwards. They are typically strong in the first day or two after the electromagnetic field (EMF) exposures and tail off as the week goes on. I would feel fine during the EMF exposures and start seeing weird health effects usually during sleep that night. Extended time around high voltage power lines & power poles were the worst for provoking reactions, followed by wifi and transmitting utility meters.

~ Steven Magee

Ordinary points of bravery, the synchronistic moments we all engage in, and the transformative power of minding our voices, forgiving, trusting, and learning to love ourselves and our lives, while we wait.

~ Andrea T. Goeglein

The power within us is immeasurable strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I can all have all the money in the world, hold all the power, or be worshiped like a god but all are meaningless without love.

~ Joyce Guo

And like my comrades, I too have tasted the bittersweet assurance that I would be okay with myself. And like so many others out there, I have given that dream away to the wind and its power over the trees.

~ A.p. Sweet

Look to the past with wisdom, and look to the future with courage.

~ Stacey T. Hunt