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For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in every crisis he has got to do what the 'natives' expect of him... A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.
— George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honeyStick fast.
— David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
When you accidentally assert power over someone or something, one of two things will happen: 1) you will be respected; or 2) you will be hated
— Katie Renee Ward
When we choose to operate on the frequency of compassion and kindness, we create, and reinforce our own reality, as filled with compassion and kindness. I refer here to the idea of unconditional compassion and kindness. It means that we can choose to react to any situation, as negative as it may seem to be, with kindness and understanding. Whenever someone chooses to be rude to us, there is no need for us to respond with rudeness. A moment of self-reflection can remind us that fire fought with fire only increases the heat. The more often we practice our conscious positive response, to any situation, our automatic negative reactions are gradually being replaced with a conscious decision to act in the most loving way we can conceive at the moment.
— Raphael Zernoff
There are only two classes of people. "The Clear", powered by their confusion and "The Confused", powered by their clarity
— Prabhukrishna M
It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them. It’s the process of being used, examined, explored, and thrown away. It’s the process of being convinced to comply with the orders of someone who does not see me as their equal, someone who sees nothing wrong with the notion that I’m somehow lesser than they are. Rape isn’t about sex; it’s about all those other things. It’s about power.
— Agnostic Zetetic
Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.
— Glenn Greenwald
His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outlives the bitter battles in which he engaged. As a result, we use the word 'Orwellian' in two senses: The first describes a nightmare state, a dystopia of untrammelled power; the second describes the human qualities that are always ranged in resistance to such regimes, and that may be more potent and durable than we sometimes dare to think.
— Christopher Hitchens
Many a small man is considered good while he remains small, but let power come to him, and he becomes a raging fury.
— Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum
The principle victims of British policies are Unpeople—those whose lives are deemed worthless, expendable in the pursuit of power and commercial gain. They are the modern equivalent of the ‘savages’ of colonial days, who could be mown down by British guns in virtual secrecy, or else in circumstances where the perpetrators were hailed as the upholders of civilisation.
— Mark Curtis, Unpeople: Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses
A problem is nothing more than a solution outstanding.
— Phumi Ngwane
Just let go of the oars. Whenyou‘re no longer paddling against the Current, when you release your oars and relax into your ownnatural Well-Being, the Current, which is ever moving in the direction of that which you havebecome and all that you want, will carry you toward your desires.
— Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide by Esther and Jerry Hicks
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
— Walter Raleigh
Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a bout how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.
Sex only makes people more like themselves. A powerful, secretive woman becomes only more powerful and more secretive in the throes of passion.
— Bee Ridgway, The River of No Return
Forgiveness is a powerful cure.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
The real you, the inner you, loves and adores you; but you cut off that power when you think badly of yourself.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
You can be inspired by others, but when you're inspired from within then you have real power for change.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.
— Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
A good reader has the power to move the world.
— Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love
I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.
— Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
When your position is one of peace, then you're truly powerful.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
— Isaac Newton
If we really are spiritual beings living a physical existence, then we have incredible power.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
You see what I am driving at. The mentally handicapped do not have a consciousness of power. Because of this perhaps their capacity for love is more immediate, lively and developed than that of other men. They cannot be men of ambition and action in society and so develop a capacity for friendship rather than for efficiency. They are indeed weak and easily influenced, because they confidently give themselves to others; they are simple certainly, but often with a very attractive simplicity. Their first reaction is often one of welcome and not of rejection or criticism. Full of trust, they commit themselves deeply. Who amongst us has not been moved when met by the warm welcome of our boys and girls, by their smiles, their confidence and their outstretched arms. Free from the bonds of conventional society, and of ambition, they are free, not with the ambitious freedom of reason, but with an interior freedom, that of friendship. Who has not been struck by the rightness of their judgments upon the goodness or evil of men, by their profound intuition on certain human truths, by the truth and simplicity of their nature which seeks not so much to appear to be, as to be. Living in a society where simplicity has been submerged by criticism and sometimes by hypocrisy, is it not comforting to find people who can be aware, who can marvel? Their open natures are made for communion and love.
— Jean Vanier, Eruption to Hope
Whatever you dream, you can achieve it provided it is the will of God for you. Once the Lord Jehovah is in approval of it, just dream it; He placed the power in you to do it abundantly!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Language lacks the power to describe Faith.
— Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Bread We Eat in Dreams
POWER WITHOUT WISDOM IS WASTED ENERGY
— KAMILAH WILLACY
Lord may your grace and power be mighty upon us to fulfill our highest calling.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The car housed a hysterical bumper sticker: Save the Planet, and I permitted a moment of contemplation to truly bask in this thought. Save the planet? What a joke. Save the planet from what? From ourselves? And save it for what? For ourselves? It was a kind of perpetual stupidity in a tug-of-war battle over trivial matters. Only imbeciles see things in black and white: liberal or conservative, yes or no, this or that. Those in power laugh at those people in their morally inverted shades of grey, basking in the labels they've created so the people are easier to control.
— Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions
Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.
— Donna Lynn Hope
See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It takes a lot of time, focus and energy to realize the enormity of being the ocean with your very own tide every month. However, by honoring the demands of bleeding, our blood gives something in return. The crazed bitch from irritation hell recedes. In her place arises a side of ourselves with whom we may not—at first—be comfortable. She is a vulnerable, highly perceptive genius who can ponder a given issue and take her world by storm. When we’re quiet and bleeding, we stumble upon the solutions to dilemmas that’ve been bugging us all month. Inspiration hits and moments of epiphany rumba ‘across de tundra of our senses. In this mode of existence one does not feel antipathy towards a bodily ritual so profoundly and routinely reinforces our cuntpower.
— Inga Muscio, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
On Andrew Jackson: "His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
My kingdom has fallen because I had built it with power,but the kingdom of Jesus Christ will last forever because it was built on love. - Napoleon Bonaparte
You'll never understand how powerful your choices have been or are until the day you ask yourself why you made them.
— Mduduzi Risimati Mbiza
I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," where he pointed out that "Force is always on the side of the governed." Whether it's a military society, a partially free society, or what we - not he - would call a totalitarian state, it's the governed who have the power. And the rulers have to find ways to keep them from using their power. Force has its limits, so they have to use persuasion. They have to somehow find ways to convince people to accept authority. If they aren't able to do that, the whole thing is going to collapse.
— Noam Chomsky, Government in the Future
Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God’s power.
— Elizabeth George
You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you have to receive. Stretch your hands and take up your laurels by the power put in you!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It’s implicit.
— Cliff James, Of Bodies Changed
P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.
— C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination
The incredibly powerful and enriching lifestyle of seeking beauty is a humble service of love and healing.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Worry is the opposite of power.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Never give up.This applies to more than goals and dreams, it is a maxim for basic daily struggles. It shapes one's life, including the will to continue to live. It supports love and committed relationships; it bolsters hope, faith, and charity; it is power in every area of existence. Never give up on anything or anyone of any worth, especially yourself.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Words have power, my son. Words can cut to the heart and soothe the deepest hurts. They can be puzzles that leave another pondering for days. I prefer to cast my spells of words in ways that make others think. It is a fault, I fear, that has come with age.
— Cheryl Matthynssens, The Blackguard
When we keep our silence we gather our power
—  when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.
You can be all that you wish to be.The power is in your own hands.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power; and any wise man worth his salt as a wise man at least understands this. One may be able to comprehend all the human perspectives in the universe, but this gives more to decipher regarding what is actually true; and even after discovering the truth, the challenge is in maintaining a patience for the infinite number of opinions that do not reflect that truth. Its consistency in man is challenge. A worldly knowledge ends at the former challenge of confusion, but the knowledge of Christ ends at the latter challenge of patience.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Olympus is still a patriarchy. Zeus heads his royal household as jealously as Jehovah rules his harem of dull, harp-playing angels. Both are templates for order on earth, don’t you think?
— Cliff James, Of Bodies Changed
This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it he has transformed the planet, annihilated space, and trebled the world's population. But it is also a power which has, like everything human, its negative side, in the desolating sense of rootlessness, vacuity, and the lack of concrete feeling that assails modern man in his moments of real anxiety.
— William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
Understand your power. Live dangerously. Live fearlessly. Cower before no earthly master. Know yourself. Live truthfully. Live freely. Be yourself. Love yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I suppose...my experience with organized faith of any stripe is somewhat stilted," Baisyl admitted. 'As far as my eyes have seen, it's a conglomeration of power-hungry men who self-appoint themselves the sole dictators of how others should live their lives in order to best please forces far beyond their control..
— Anihyr Moonstar
It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Knowledge is power and at the end of the day, our health, the health of our children, the health of our community, and the health of Mother Earth is our responsibility. Therefore, it is imperative that we understand the human and environmental affects of the products that we buy.
— Obiora Embry
Spirituality is like a thin-thin thread, that if delicately followed guides us from darkness to light; from poverty to abundance and from destruction to safety.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Being love-filled and beautiful is one of the most powerful defenses that one can employ.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your mind should be on one thing and one thing only: gaining enough power to be free to live your own purpose and not another man’s.
— Cheryl Matthynssens, The Blackguard
Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Let the power of yes take root in your heart and transform you life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The most powerful manifesting is realized by those who walk in love and create through love.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
First unite yourself to unite everyone.
— AribaZafar
Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives
—  words and ideas change the world.
The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate
— Agona Apell
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, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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, Fire
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, If This Is a Man / The Truce
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, The Outsider
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, Making Wishes
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, Worlds Unending
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, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
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, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
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, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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, If This Is a Man / The Truce
The sky is not the limit
— Jennifer Kathleen Phillips, Word Power Poetry & Poetics
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, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
People can only have power over you if you are seeking to have power over others.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Writing has the power of permanence.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your power and brilliance is the the most awesome force life could muster.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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, Life and Fate
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, Caliban's War
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)
— - Deborah Harkness
Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power
—  and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
— Vernon Howard
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, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put out his foot of his own accord.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
One walks along a street and strays unknowingly from one's path; one then looks up and suddenly for those familiar landmarks of orientation, and, seeing none, one feels lost. Panic drapes the look of the world in a strangeness, and the more one stares blankly at the world, the stranger it looks, the more hideously frightening it seems. There is then born in one a wild, hot wish to project out upon the alien world the world that one is seeking. This wish is a hunger for power, to be in command of one's self.
— Richard Wright, The Outsider
I wonder what could happen if self-confessed followers of Jesus surrendered our human powers, and our desires for power, and began to celebrate openly our human weakness in exchange for the experience of Christ as Power within us. What could happen if, for Christ's sake, we openly delighted in our weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties?
— John David Geib, Beyond Beliefs
We can face whatever circumstances await us with courage if we just reflect on God’s faithfulness and place our confidence in His great power and loving purpose for our lives.
— David Jeremiah, What Are You Afraid Of?
The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy
—  it is the negation of Christianity.
Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.
— Charlie Huston, Sleepless
Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man
— H. Rider Haggard, She
The strength we find within ourselves gives us endurance and perseverance power.
— Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
He pulled back on the bridle, stopping in disbelief. “Your love for him has damaged your senses.”“And your hunger for power has affected you intelligence
— Maria V. Snyder
Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas maybe we do so because those ideas are true... written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us... vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth us not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called... re-membered... re-cognized... as that which is already inside us.
— Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
The purpose of every human life is to teach, through one's own method, the power of love.
— Chriscinthia Blount
All the power in the world, resides inside you.If you let it.
— Krishna Sagar
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long. Those who have it on loan from Fate count on it too much and are themselves destroyed.
— Paul Hoffman
Being powerful or powerless is a habit.
— Krishna Sagar
When wisdom arises, our inherent power as a being naturally arises as well, and then we begin to view things differently. We begin to see things based on the truth that we have found inside, not the truth that isimposed by others on us.
— M. Laurie Cantil, A Magician's Visit
When the power of breath (Sa) is controlled it becomes rested (as) and in thatstate it transforms into protector(tra); this is the basic principle of life andconsciousness, wherein the senses, mind, intelligence all are protected anddirected through the power of breath in a rested state, this is called Sa+as+tra (SASTRA). It is the most powerful weapon alive and the most powerfulprotector as well. One who stills, directs, controls and allows it to rise fromthe core of the body to the subtle, subtler, subtlest levels of consciousness isconsidered to be well versed in Sastras. Ananth Yoga allows one to work onthe Grossest, Gross, Subtle, Subtler levels of consciousness, through thebreath power leading on to connect to the subtlest level of consciousness.
— Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
Sophie knew about power animals,everyone did...Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.
— Michelle Tea, Mermaid in Chelsea Creek
These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous, and most importantly, you got to send them to the recycle bin.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So it's necessary to distort history and make it look as if Great Men did everything - that's part of how you teach people they can't do anything, they're helpless, they just have to wait for some Great Man to come along and do it for them.
— Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is really the danger most to be feared, and will continue to be so for many years to come. The tyranny of the executive power will come in its turn, but at a more distant period.
— Thomas Jefferson, Democracy in America
Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Father-daughter incest is not only the type of incest most frequently reported but also represents a paradigm of female sexual victimization. The relationship between father and daughter, adult male and female child, is one of the most unequal relationships imaginable. It is no accident that incest occurs most often precisely in the relationship where the female is most powerless. The actual sexual encounter may be brutal or tender, painful or pleasurable; but it is always, inevitably, destructive to the child. The father, in effect, forces the daughter to pay with her body for affection and care which should be freely given. p4
— Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
Most people's greatest regret is not living the life they knew they could live.
— Todd Stocker, Leading from the Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders
Money had no name, of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desire to bring his ideas to reality by imposing them on his fellow man.
— Lionel Trilling
There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.
— Moira Young, Rebel Heart
It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.
— Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron
Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God's people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall.
— Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
Respect all men but fear none.
— Tylor Ilori
Between the Bible and the Holy Spirit, you have everything you need to grow spiritually. And the more you grow, the more God can use you.
— Elizabeth George
But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
— Anonymous
When it comes to compounding, don't trust your intuition - you have no idea how powerful it is.
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard to Fleet Street, who could think of anything better to do than abuse it....
— Edward St. Aubyn, Lost for Words
A knowledgeable citizen is a powerful citizen because knowledge is power! Make your nation a powerful one... Keep reading to acquire more knowledge! Let books be your friends
—  never disappoint them by not studying them frequently!
A man needs to feel powerful and respected. Innately within us, as far back as we can remember, we have taught ourselves to grand stand in our abilities to be tough, to conquer, to impress and to win in all aspects of our lives in order to be validated by others and in doing so we have built our conceptual house of self on the sand of societal opinion. Yet, ironically, it’s only when a man finds his true strength in humility, in its purest sense, will he ever experience what genuine power and respect feels like. The man who builds his conceptual house of self on the rock of unpretentious decorum simply needs no validation outside of his creator. He is who he is…and for all intense and purposes that is the only respectable power any man should ever seek.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
The only thing more dangerous than your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are
— Joshua Teya
Thanks To Those People Who Give A Taste Of Right Ways.
— Zia Mustafa
The mouse that makes jest of a cat has already seen a hole nearby... We don't fear the devil because we are leaning on the resurrection power of Christ!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Don't neglect the gifts in you. Power reserved is function suspended. The day you choose to switch on your passion is the day you will see your dunamis power in you. Be inspired!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Power, it seems, is one of those terms we all understand and can explain--until asked to do so.
— Martin N. Marger, Elites and Masses
Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.
— Jennifer Donnelly
For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings, it may become a scourge, a curse, and severe punishment to a people." What made it so, what turned power into a malignent force, was not its own nature so much as the nature of man—his susceptibility to corruption and his lust for self-aggrandizement.
— Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Most governments strive to keep the masses from thinking
—  if the masses began to think the government would not be in power - rjs
The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good man in private life to a tyrant in office." It acts upon men like drink: it "is known to be intoxicating in its nature"—"too intoxicating and liable to abuse." And nothing within man is sufficiently strong to guard against these effects of power—certainly not "the united considerations of reason and religion," for they have never "been sufficiently powerful to restrain these lusts of men.
— Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine.
— Nenia Campbell, Touched with Sight
Can I tell you a boring science fact?" she whispered. "I bet you didn't learn it in Shadowhunter history class.""If you're trying to distract me from talking about my feelings, you're not being very subtle about it." He touched her face. "You know I make speeches. It's okay. You don't have to make them back. Just tell me you love me,""I'm not trying to distract you." She held up her hand and wiggles the fingers. "There are a hundred trillion cells in the human body," she said. "And every single one of the cells of my body loves you. We shed cells, and grow new ones, and my new cells love you more than the old ones, which is why I love you more every day than I did before. It's science. And when I die and they burn my body and I become ashes that mix with the air, and part of the ground and the trees and the stars, everyone who breathes air of sees the flowers that grow out of the ground or looks up at the stars will remember you and love you, because I love you that much," She smiled. "How was that for a speech?
— Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else.
— Rati Tsiteladze
we were nothing more than actions to reactions - helpless against our own fate. It's true. I react and others pay.
— Katie McGarry, Take Me On
There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.
— Stormie Omartian
Don’t be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!
— Stormie Omartian
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. ...Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. ...Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
— Frederick Douglass
When you understand the mechanincs of stress and master the techniques to manipulate someone's fears and dreams, you will be powerful.
— Gregory Hartley
Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason for fighting. Because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretense of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons rapidly developed by servile scientists will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you into pieces.
— Peter Weiss, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.
— Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening
Don’t think too small about what God could do in your life—be prepared for God to do a big thing.
— Stormie Omartian
Be Like Lightning Which Has The Power To Animate Or Destroy Life.... It's Up To You Which Side You Wanna Take....
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake.
— Michelle M. Pillow, Love Potions
The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
— Dorothy Day, Therese
Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment.
— Michelle M. Pillow, Love Potions
There are few things more powerful than people united.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try and feel okay about them.
— Stephen Chbosky
Lydia had been fantasizing about him to the point she nearly drove him insane with it. It had taken four days for his energy to weaken inside her enough that he could go and visit her without fear she would throw him across the town in a gust of wind, and thus cause a scene. Although, getting run out of town after one day would be a new MacGregor record.
— Michelle M. Pillow, Love Potions
You have to stop thinking that way. Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.
— Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now
There ya are.” Erik grinned at her as he came bounding down the steps two at a time. He stepped around his statue of a sister as if such a thing were normal. Perhaps here it was. He paused, nodding at Malina. “Morning, banshee.” He gave a small brotherly laugh and poked his thumb toward her face. “She does kind of look like a banshee with her hair flying around like that and her mouth all open. Yeah, ma froze her good. See how her eyes don’t move?” Erik leaned closer to her and grinned as he looked into her mouth. “Ha, Euann put a mint in there.
— Michelle M. Pillow, Love Potions
Ly-di-ah! I sit beneath your window, laaaass, singing ’cause I loooove your a—”“For the love of St. Francis of Assisi, someone call a vet. There is an injured animal screaming in pain outside,” Charlotte interrupted the flow of music in ill-humor.
— Michelle M. Pillow, Love Potions
SMILE Is Not Just A Word.... It Means A Lot, Love, Trust, Warmth, Tenderness Etc, In Fact It Means WORLD.... So SMILE ALWAYS.... That Means, YOU Are Giving A WORLD To SOMEONE....
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
You kill by consent, every time you let something… pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegitimate, and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
A stóirín, ya are a handful of trouble, but I kind of like it.
— Michelle M. Pillow, Love Potions
He kissed the corner of her lips before whispering by her ear, “And that was just my hand, love.
— Michelle M. Pillow, Love Potions
He’s not wearing…” Charlotte began.“I know. He doesn’t,” Lydia answered.
— Michelle M. Pillow, Love Potions
People tend to think that death is absolute, the one thing we can all be certain about, but that’s not the case. Death is complex. It’s powerful and timeless. The truth is, when it comes to death, nothing is impossible.
— Jacqueline E. Smith, Between Worlds
Reading Is Very Powerful.... It Gives You The Illusion To See The Past, Present, Future And Even Seeing The Invisible.... So READ....
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
...godly power and godly love are related to one another neither through subordination nor dialectically. Rather, God's mightiness is understood as the power of his love. Only love is almighty. Then God's lordship is to be understood as the rule of his mercy and God's law is accordingly the law of his grace.
— Eberhard Jüngel, God as the Mystery of the World: On the Foundation of the Theology of the Crucified One in the Dispute Between Theism and Atheism
It’s funny, how for an entire lifetime we keep thinking ‘How’ will our life-partner look like, how will he be? How will he react to a particular situation? How will he get angry, and how will we love and pamper him? We have so many questions like if he will accept me the way I am? Or if I have to change for him? We all have made plans for our future, subconsciously. We don’t exactly plan out everything with a pen and paper, it’s something that happens automatically, just like an involuntary action. Whenever we are alone and our mood is good, we usually think about our life with our partner. The days and nights in his arms, and the time that we will reserve for him.But when all that turns into reality, it’s strikingly different. Everything that you thought, seems to be a joke, and life laughs at you from a distance! You are helpless and can’t do anything about it, but have to accept it the way it is. You are totally caught into a web of dilemmas and problems before you realize that this is the time you waited for, and that this is the time you dreamt about! You have to make efforts, compromises, sacrifices and you have to change yourselves too sometimes to make things work.You can never expect to get a partner exactly the way you thought or dreamt about. It’s always different in reality and it’s always tough to make both ends meet for a relationship to work, but you have to! It’s your relationship, if you won’t work for it, who else will?
— Mehek Bassi
Let me tell you something, kid," said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White
Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says.
— Stephen King, Duma Key
All people are brave when their power is rising.
— Abū Muslim
Once war was considered the business of soldiers, international relations the concern of diplomats. But now that war has become seemingly total and seemingly permanent, the free sport of kings has become the forced and internecine business of people, and diplomatic codes of honor between nations have collapsed. Peace in no longer serious; only war is serious. Every man and every nation is either friend or foe, and the idea of enmity becomes mechanical, massive, and without genuine passion. When virtually all negotiation aimed at peaceful agreement is likely to be seen as 'appeasement,' if not treason, the active role of the diplomat becomes meaningless; for diplomacy becomes merely a prelude to war an interlude between wars, and in such a context the diplomat is replaced by the warlord.
— C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite
When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force
— Leo Buscaglia, Love
Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.
— Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di
Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train is waiting." by Primo Levi in Drowned
— Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved
A named thing is a tamed thing.
— Joanne Harris, Runemarks
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven