Power Quotes

But I could control these flames. It was an irresistible urge, one that I didn’t want to ignore. - Aurora

~ Candace Knoebel

Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.

~ Christa Wolf

To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerful than the fight itself.

~ Michael Delong

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

~ Matt Taibbi

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few wanted more than others. Those not satisfied with running their own lives but wishing to have power over the lives of the others. Greedy people. Greedy for wealth, or power or both.

~ Garry Douglas Kilworth

When you unlock your pleasure, you unlock your power. And that can change anything... -Sheerah, Donny and Ursula Save the World.

~ Sharon Weil

Ignorance leads to destruction.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?

~ Malcolm Lowry

Always remember: Power in the wrong hands can destroy the owner. The same power that gave victory to Samson is what destroyed him.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.

~ Charles M. Blow

I’ve come to realize the power of reflection, the kind that comes only from contemplation. Synchronizing ourselves with the awe-inspiring environment around us is indeed a tremendous feat that, at some point or another, we must all undergo, alone yet together.

~ Kayla Severson

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it: for man is an imitative animal.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations.

~ T.f. Hodge

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?Yes, I am fond of history.I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all -- it is very tiresome.

~ Jane Austen

The beauty and music...It is a call...And some are not strong.

~ Richard Llewellyn

One morning indeed, I felt a sudden misgiving that she not only had left the house but had gone for good: I had just heard the sound of a door which seemed to me to be that of her room. On tiptoe I crept towards the room, opened the door, stood upon the threshold. In the dim light the bedclothes bulged in a semi-circle, that must be Albertine who, with her body bent, was sleeping with her feet and face to the wall. Only, overflowing the bed, the hair upon that head, abundant and dark, made me realise that it was she, that she had not opened her door, had not stirred, and I felt that this motionless and living semi-circle, in which a whole human life was contained and which was the only thing to which I attached any value, I felt that it was there, in my despotic possession.

~ Marcel Proust

Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.

~ Lena Hussain

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

~ Alexander Berkman

I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses. A winning solution is to work out the differences and, when it’s over, let it be over. Then they can get back in the game as a team.

~ Steve Goodier

If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.

~ E.l. James

The have influence, but no power.In my experience, influence is power.

~ Orson Scott Card

Power lasts ten years, influence not more than a hundred.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

In my experience, influence is power.

~ Orson Scott Card

Never make fun of people who are different...unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One can see how this worked at its starkest in Xenophon’s Anabasis, which tells the story of an army of Greek mercenaries who suddenly find themselves leaderless and lost in the middle of Persia. They elect new officers, and then hold a collective vote to decide what to do next. In a case like this, even if the vote was 60/40, everyone could see the balance of forces and what would happen if things actually came to blows. Every vote was, in a real sense, a conquest.

~ David Graeber

Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving power

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible.

~ Sameh Talhamy

When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.

~ Christian D. Larson

If the distinction is not held too rigidly nor pressed too far, it is interesting to think of Shakespeare's chief works as either love dramas or power dramas, or a combination of the two. In his Histories, the poet handles the power problem primarily, the love interest being decidedly incidental. In the Comedies, it is the other way around, overwhelmingly in the lighter ones, distinctly in the graver ones, except in Troilus and Cressida--hardly comedy at all--where without full integration something like a balance is maintained. In the Tragedies both interests are important, but Othello is decidedly a love drama and Macbeth as clearly a power drama, while in Hamlet and King Lear the two interests often alternate rather than blend.

~ Harold C. Goddard

There’s always someone bigger and badder who can knock you off your perch—even if you’re me. Never forget it and you don’t have to worry about corruption. You’ll be too afraid with watching your own back. --Alexandria Dria McAndrews

~ C.j. Ellisson

Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

I don't understand', I say,'why they care what I think, as long as I'm acting how they want me to.''You're acting how they want you to now', he says,'but what happens when your Abnegation-wired brain tells you to do something else, something they don't want?

~ Veronica Roth

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

~ Wayne W. Dyer

In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live in harmony with the Infinite. The highest teachings of the Christ reveal most clearly the principle that no soul was created to be a mere helpless instrument in the hands of Supreme Power, but that every soul should act and live in perfect oneness with that Power. And the promise is that we all are not only to do the things that Christ did, but even greater things.

~ Christian D. Larson

Power isn't the big cars and bent slavesPower is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.

~ Sapphire Belucci

Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical laws.

~ Tsung-Dao Lee

The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

~ Mary Oliver