Power Quotes

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes. And where men worship these things and abase themselves before them, there evil breeds; there places are made in the world where darkness gathers, places given over wholly to the Ones whom we call Nameless, the ancient and holy Powers of the Earth before the Light, the powers of the dark, of ruin, of madness.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.

~ Kahlil Gibran

I inadvertently had a very high dose of environmental transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) when commissioning a very high powered utility electronic power plant and I can assure you that it can do very strange things to your thinking and the effects last a very long time!

~ Steven Magee

Pure Love is detached, self-assured, self-poised, non-possessive and non-aggressive in nature. Yet, it is tremendously powerful to move the whole universe.

~ Banani Ray

And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.

~ Beth Revis

In the age of arms, a super warhead might be the most powerful for its destructiveness. In the age of farms, an irrigation system is most powerful, for it feeds lives. But how do you define power and advancement in the age of social engineering? It is the one that mimics human the best, isn’t it? We don’t need a warhead when there has been a drought. We don’t point at our enemy with sprinklers. It is about evolving. (Douglas Parsley)

~ Alan Chains

The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.

~ David Mitchell

The Devil is a master of disguise and takes on many forms. He comes to conquer you, steal your joy, kill your spirit, and destroy your faith. When you are doing right, he attacks you from the left but know that God is all powerful and God is in you and that no weapon formed against you shall prosper.

~ C.l. Hall

The only thing that powerful men feared above all else was a loss of that power.

~ Tish Thawer

Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates!

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

One day My father taught me a ‎lesson never compete with someone who sold the world for his ‎dream... I have learned the lesson and decided to be this one so, no one can compete with me.

~ Ahmed El Sokkary

By all means be submissive in the bedroom (if you are that way inclined), but don't be submissive to life. Being life's bitch is no fun at all. Life may play up in many ways, but it's up to you to take control, take charge and put life in its place.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

There is no limit on the level that the reflections can be at and in a modern environment, such as a city, the albedo can increase the power levels many times of the sky based solar radiation of direct and diffuse combined. The trees prevent the albedo reflections from occurring.

~ Steven Magee

The sword of Zulfiqar is a perfect fusion of power and function

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Feel da power swallow you whole. Let go an’ lose yo’self in it.

~ Jason Medina

People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it's those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.

~ Anthony Liccione

This isn't the work of our people, Delilah. It's a corruption of power. The gods are neutral, good and evil manifests in the deeds of mortals.''Or, just maybe-- The power is our own and the credit horribly misplaced.

~ Kurtis J. Wiebe

The only thing more compelling than love is power.

~ Claudia Gray

A man who wants to gain power over a woman must follow the example of women and condition his sex drive. If he succeeds in becoming as cold as she, she can no longer bait him with sex into the role of provider. At most she could offer herself as an equal sex partner, as dependent on him as he is on her. If men could abstain from sex at judicious intervals they might even succeed in normalizing the female sex drive - even make women desire them more than the other way around.

~ Esther Vilar

Our ways of seeing are democratic. Unfortunately, they are not bureaucratic. Except in rare circumstances, I no longer believe that it is possible to be both, because when it becomes bureaucratic the struggle is not about pedagogy, it's about power. About who controls the activities that occur in schools. About who controls who participates in American society. About who controls the power base of the twenty-first century.

~ Denny Taylor

You like it. Knowing things about people. It makes you feel powerful.

~ Sara Wolf

Your power depends on how much time you spend fellowshipping with God.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Power consists in making oneself the goal of another person's social instincts, without seeking to satisfy one's own social instincts through him. The other then does everything one asks. Powerlessness consists in wanting or having to satisfy one's social instincts through another person whose social instincts one has not succeeded in concentrating on oneself - one then does everything the other asks.

~ Esther Vilar

My emotions are invisible, untouchable—invincible even—and their power far outweighs my own. And so it seems unfair that for all the little I can do to them, they can do so much to me.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

That must be what power does to a man: erases what he knows and makes him remember only what services him at the moment.

~ Trish Mercer

I thought the power you had was in your arms and legs and the weapons you bear?”“Don’t forget my cock.

~ Gavin G. Smith

[T]here cannot be a more certain symptom of the approaching ruin of a State than when a firm adherence to party is fixed upon as the only test of merit, and all the qualifications requisite to a right discharge of every employment, are reduced to that single standard.

~ Edward Wortley Montagu

The love of power is either due to low or overly high self-esteem.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The Word of God gives power, authority and abundant life to a man.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We can all become God`s agent of change by the power of God`s truth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

...a guilty system recognizes no innocents. As with any power apparatus which thinks everybody’s either for it or against it, we’re against it. You would be too, if you thought about it. The very way you think places you among its enemies. This might not be your fault, because every society imposes some of its values on those raised within it, but the point is that some societies try to maximize that effect, and some try to minimize it. You come from one of the latter and you’re being asked to explain yourself to one of the former. Prevarication will be more difficult than you might imagine; neutrality is probably impossible. You cannot choose not to have the politics you do; they are not some separate set of entities somehow detachable from the rest of your being; they are a function of your existence. I know that and they know that; you had better accept it.

~ Iain M. Banks

Trust in this life is a hard thing to earn and keep.

~ Jonathan Burkett

Money will never be as precious as this one life we live.

~ Jonathan Burkett

If you are facing some kind of temptation, remember that it is within your power to get the victory over it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

You could pay for power, but would never buy dignity.

~ Hafiz

The current generation of solar and wind power systems generally introduce instability into the electrical utility grid system with their intermittent power generation characteristics and electronically generated harmonic energy.

~ Steven Magee

I seek no favor untouched by blood.

~ Audre Lorde

What lies behind us may be mighty. What lies before us may be mightier. But what lies within us is the mightiest of all! Christ within us is the hope of Glory!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

~ Edward Snowden