c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I'm raw power & energy. And my wife is like the only scientist who can harness and direct it properly. I always thank Jah for her. (Proverbs 31:10)
— Sotero M Lopez II
In China the egalitarian movement came not just from Zhu's vision, but also the Taoist ideas of balance, as Zhu would always point out. In Travancore it rose out of the Buddhist idea of compassion, in Yingzhou from the Hodenosaunee idea of the equality of all, in Firanja from the idea of justice before God. Everywhere the idea existed, but the world still belonged to a tiny minority of rich; wealth had been accumulating for centuries in a few hands, and the people lucky enough to be born into this old aristocracy lived in the old manner, with the rights of kings now spread among the wealthy of the Earth. Money had replaced land as the basis of power, and money flowed according to its own gravity, its laws of accumulation, which though divorced from nature, were nevertheless the laws ruling most countries on Earth, no matter their religious or philosophical ideas of love, compassion, charity, equality, goodness, and the like. Old Zhu had been right: humanity's behavior was still based on old laws, which determined how food and land and water and surplus wealth around, how the labor of the eight billions was owned. If these laws did not change, the living shell of the earth might well be wrecked, and inherited by seagulls and ants and cockroaches.
— Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
We may not have the power to change, but we have the power to move.
— Lik Hock Yap Ivan
Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.
— Conn Iggulden, Khan: Empire of Silver
Every spoken sentence beginning with ‘I Am’ is a powerful spell exhaled into action. Describe yourself wisely.
— Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
They resented the patronage they depended upon.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
You are the most powerful tool in your life. Use your energy, your thoughts and your magick wisely!
— Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
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, The Nomad Learns Morality
Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering.
— Nobuyuki Fukumoto
The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.
— Italo Calvino
Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreography both quick-footed and wary
— Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
My question is whether America can overcome the fatal arrogance of power.
— J. William Fulbright (Senator)
The second you think that you are something is the same second you confirm that you are nothing
— Hisham Fawzi
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, The Traitor Baru Cormorant
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, Carry On
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, Spellbinder
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, All In
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, Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice
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, The Nomad Learns Morality
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, The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency
I'm struck by the difficulty I had in formulating it. When I think back now, I ask myself what else it was that I was talking about in Madness and Civilization or The Birth of the Clinic, but power? Yet I'm perfectly aware that I scarcely ever used the word and never had such a field of analyses at my disposal. I can say that this was an incapacity linked undoubtedly with the political situation in which we found ourselves. It is hard to see where, either on the Right or the Left, this problem of power could then have been posed. On the Right, it was posed only in terms of constitution, sovereignty, and so on, that is, in juridical terms; on the Marxist side, it was posed only in terms of the state apparatus. The way power was exercised - concretely, and in detail - with its specificity, its techniques and tactics, was something no one attempted to ascertain; they contented themselves with denouncing it in a polemical and global fashion as it existed among the "other," in the adversary camp. Where Soviet socialist power was in question, its opponents called it totalitarianism; power in Western capitalism was denounced by the Marxists as class domination; but the mechanics of power in themselves were never analyzed.
— Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
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, The 48 Laws of Power
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, The Young Elites
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, Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement
Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.
— Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
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, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
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, Between the World and Me
The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
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, A Story Teller's Story
All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.
— Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
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, The Nightmare Charade
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, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
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, The Best and the Brightest
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, Toxic Electricity
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, Don't Die Waiting to Be Brave
The power within us is immeasurable strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
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, dead, but dreaming
Look to the past with wisdom, and look to the future with courage.
— Stacey T. Hunt
Don’t ever feel bad for making a decision about your own life that upsets other people. You are not responsible for their happiness. You’re responsible for your own happiness. Anyone who wants you to live in misery for their happiness should not be in your life anyway.
— Isaiah Hankel
In the end I began to understand. There is such a thing as absolute power over narrative. Those who secure this privilege for themselves can arrange stories about others pretty much where, and as, they like. Just as in corrupt, totalitarian regimes, those who exercise power over others can do anything.
— Chinua Achebe, Home and Exile
Fear is one of the persistent hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the poor, the dispossessed, the disinherited. There is nothing new or recent about fear—it is doubtless as old as the life of man on the planet. Fears are of many kinds—fear of objects, fear of people, fear of the future, fear of nature, fear of the unknown, fear of old age, fear of disease, and fear of life itself. Then there is fear which has to do with aspects of experience and detailed states of mind.Our homes, institutions, prisons, churches, are crowded with people who are hounded by day and harrowed by night because of some fear that lurks ready to spring into action as soon as one is alone, or as soon as the lights go out, or as soon as one’s social defenses are temporarily removed.The ever-present fear that besets the vast poor, the economically and socially insecure, is a fear of still a different breed. It is a climate closing in; it is like the fog in San Francisco or in London. It is nowhere in particular yet everywhere. It is a mood which one carries around with himself, distilled from the acrid conflict with which his days are surrounded. It has its roots deep in the heart of the relations between the weak and the strong, between the controllers of environment and those who are controlled by it.When the basis of such fear is analyzed, it is clear that it arises out of the sense of isolation and helplessness in the face of the varied dimensions of violence to which the underprivileged are exposed. Violence, precipitate and stark, is the sire of the fear of such people. It is spawned by the perpetual threat of violence everywhere. Of course, physical violence is the most obvious cause. But here, it is important to point out, a particular kind of physical violence or its counterpart is evidenced; it is violence that is devoid of the element of contest. It is what is feared by the rabbit that cannot ultimately escape the hounds.
— Howard Thurman
Sometimes it's like: If something terrifies you, you should totally do it BECAUSE it terrifies you. And then you'll do it and you'll realise what you're capable of.
— Jonathan Saccone-Joly
The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?
— Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.
— Mary Renault, The King Must Die
In order for collaboration to take place, managers must give up their silos and their perceptions of power.
— Jane Ripley, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
The powerful hate truth that put them in bad light
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
The boundary between good and evil are clearer for more common folks but gets blurred more and more as people get more power over their fellows.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
What some politicians really mean when they saythis country: me, my party, my ethnic groupinternational justice is biased: they want to arrest meterrorists: oppositionillegal immigrants: refugeeselections: remaining in powerpeace: eliminating the oppositioninternational community: the rich countriesthe people: sympathisers of my party
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
...But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness.
— George Saunders
The arbitrary character of patriarchal ascriptions of temperament and role has little effect upon their power over us. Nor do the mutually exclusive, contradictory, and polar qualities of the categories “masculine” and “feminine” imposed upon human personality give rise to sufficiently serious question among us. Under their aegis each personality becomes little more, and often less than half, of its human potential. Politically, the fact that each group exhibits a circumscribed but complementary personality and range of activity is of secondary importance to the fact that each represents a status or power division. In the matter of conformity patriarchy is a governing ideology without peer; it is probably that no other system has ever exercised such a complete control over its subjects.
— Kate Millett
Our values have led us where we are in life right now. We can't excel beyond the power behind our values that we have embraced...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.
— Mary Renault, The King Must Die
The morning behind the dark mist, the mighty and gracious cloud in the sky, scepter of power to the modest grounds yielding fruitfulness, you are the ALMIGHTY.
— Darmie O-Lujon
Everybody would be a dictator if he could.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
I have seen the poor suffer when nobles seek the purity of ideals. I have seen the powerless die when princes believe in the nostalgia of their dreams. I have seen the common people torn from peace and thrown into war when kings yearn to test the clarity of their vision.
— Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
Being on the inside could be an addiction
— Stephen L. Carter, Back Channel
God only gives men power to make wealth, meaning God does not give wealth, he gives the power to work for it. (Deut. 8:18)
— Sunday Adelaja
He intrigued her. Powerful men, in her experience, were usually not so full of doubt. Kuni was consumed by the desire to do good for others, but uncertain what "good" might be and whether he was the right man for the job.Kuni was the sort of man, Risana realized, who, rather than deceive himself, was so full of self-doubt that he could not longer see himself
— Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
Both Yassi and I know that we have been losing our faith. We have been questioning it with every move. During the Shah's time, it was different. I felt I was in the minority and I had to guard my faith against all odds. Now that my religion is in power, I feel more helpless than ever before, and more alienated.' She wrote about how ever since she could remember, she had been told that life in the land of infidels was pure hell. She had been promised that all would be different under a just Islamic rule. Islamic rule! It was a pageant of hypocrisy and shame.
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
I don't get that, I mean, what's power? Let's say he suddenly becomes king of the world. What is he going to do with it that he can't do now? Is his food going to taste better? Is the weather going to be nicer? Will love feel better? I just don't understand that mentality.
— Richard Paul Evans
There are many languages in the world but the most widely spoken and understood by everyone are power, love and money.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
The powerful have no conscience
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change.
— Shannon L. Alder
A revolutionary war of freedom, he said” Hiawatha responded crisply, “and I agree… does Superman ever fly to Thailand and free the kids slaving in the sweat shops owned by the rich corporations? No, he doesn’t. Does Batman ever break into prison and free the wrongfully convicted and over sentenced black man whose rights were trampled on when he was incarcerated? No, he doesn’t. Does Spider man ever break into a house in suburbia and beat up the abusive and violent husband? No, he doesn’t.” “Do the Fantastic Four ever fly out to third world countries and defend the rights of the poor civilians against greedy American corporations? No, they don’t,” said the Pirate, not to be outdone. “They’re all just tools used by the state to maintain the status quo,” said Hiawatha.
— Arun D. Ellis, Corpalism
If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.
— Criss Jami, Healology
The power of the word is completely misused in hell. We use the word to curse, to blame, to find guilt, to destroy. Of course, we also use it in the right way, but not too often. Mostly we use the word to spread our personal poison - to express anger, jealousy, envy, and hate. The word is pure magic - the most powerful gift we have as humans - and we use it against ourselves. We plan revenge. We create chaos with the word. We use the word to create hate between different races, between different people, between families, between nations. We misuse the word so often, and this misuse is how we create and perpetuate the dream of hell. Misuse of the word is how we pull each other down and keep each other in a state of fear and doubt.
— Miguel Ruiz
You made me laugh at your jokes.You made me cry at your criticism.You made me shout at your lies.Then I noticed how in every case someone else was present, hearing you without laughter or tears or anger.I alone reacted.I see now; you never made me laugh or cry or rage.I chose to find humor.I chose to take offense.I chose to feel scorned.The truth is, you never had power over me.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism.
— Lierre Keith
You can’t write novels without a touch of paranoia. I’m paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?
— Shannon L. Alder
The world is run largely by urban, sedentary males. The symbol of power is the chair.
— Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man
In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed.
— Bruce Crown, Chronic Passions
While thinking about who you are and how you are alive is powerful
—  feeling who you are and how you are alive is even more powerful.
If success is yet to become a reality in your life, you haven't exhausted your willpower.
No amount of wealth or power can ever make you a rich as a free man.
— Adwitiya Borah, The Wrong Vantage Point
The greatest of our virtues and the worst of our sins is wanting nothing less than more.
— Osman Welela, Kingdom
The power of the word is completely misused in hell. We use the word to curse, to blame, to find guilt, to destroy. Of course, we also use it in the right way, but not too often. Mostly we use the word to spread our personal poison - to express anger, jealousy, envy, and hate. The words is pure magic - the most powerful gift we have as humans - and we use it against ourselves. We plan revenge. We create chaos with the word. We use the word to create hate between different races, between different people, between families, between nations. We misuse the word so often, and this misuse is how we create and perpetuate the dream of hell. Misuse of the word is how we pull each other down and keep each other in a state of fear and doubt.
— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
She kissed him like he was a warrior
—  she kissed him like she was a warrior.
The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.
— Alan Cohen
I submit respectfully to the House as a general principle that our responsibility in this matter is directly proportionate to our power. Where there is great power there is great responsibility, where there is less power there is less responsibility, and where there is no power there can, I think, be no responsibility.
— Winston Churchill.  In the House of Commons, February 28, 1906 speech South African native races. Wi
The strong take from the weak. That’s what power is for.
— Creepox the insectoid - Power Rangers
Those who do not know the danger of wielding power will, before long, be ruled by it.
— Twilight Princess
I don’t know how much longer I can keep pretending. How long I can contain the storm I am becoming; the emotions pushed aside that grow and strengthen, clamoring for their release. I can resist only so much. One day I won’t be able to fake a smile or weave a lie. One day I am going to explode.
— Tabi Card, Spinner
Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do good in the world. Believe in personal virtue. There is no substitute for it anywhere under the. heavens. Believe in your power to discipline yourselves against the evils which could destroy you. Believe in one another as the greatest generation ever yet to live upon the earth.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Believe in God our Eternal Father, He who is greatest of all, who stands ever ready to help us and who has the power to do so. Believe in Jesus Christ, the Savior and the Redeemer of mankind, the worker of miracles, the greatest who ever walked the earth, the intercessor with our Father. Believe in the power of the Holy Ghost to lead, to inspire, to comfort, to protect. Believe in the Prophet Joseph, as an instrument in the hands of the Almighty in ushering in this the dispensation of the fullness of times.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
As more good Knowledge you get as more quality life you can achieve.
— Millie DeWitt
Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.
— Criss Jami, Healology
But every time I near sleep, I'm scared shitless. Because the memories are coming faster now, pouring through me, as if I've broken the handle on the faucet. They are coming, no matter how much is hurts. And all I can do is hold my breath and try not to drown.
— Meg Haston, Paperweight
Malinda moved so we were eye-level. "Forget the people who've hurt you. You don't have them anymore, but you have two others that'll do anything to you. Mason and Logan would move mountains for you. I see how you are with them. You love them, but you're scared to let yourself be happy. Why? Because that's when they'll leave? Is that what you think? You've got it all wrong. Those two will never leave you." She tapped my chest. Once. Twice. "You. You're the one that's going to hurt them. You have that power, and you don't know it. You could rip those two apart in a second, and they're the ones who are scared of you. Not the other way around. You need to recognize the real situation.
— Tijan, Fallen Crest Public
In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder.
— Katlyn Charlesworth, While Rome Burned
The power of the Blood of Jesus, the Word of God & the name of Jesus are the believers weapons of defense against the Devil.
— Pazaria Smith
For life to go your way, you must equip yourself with the power of change.
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t believe everything you think. Our minds are thought-creating machines. Most of these thoughts are fear-based. Our authentic self has the power to pick the thoughts that best serve us and those we lead.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
For life to smile at you, you must equip yourself with the power of change.
— Sunday Adelaja
[P]ower, terrible, unprecedented power, and with it came the unavoidable choice that had faced every power-junkie since time began: to have the sheer gall to fake being something greater than a man, or cop-out on the millions who had poured a part of themselves into your image and be something less.
— Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron
Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth.
— Sunday Adelaja
If one assumes, as I do, that battery is caused by the belief permeating this culture that hierarchical rule and coercive authority are natural, then all our relationships tend to be based on power and domination, and thus all forms of battery are linked.
— bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Another basic characteristic of liberalism which constitutes a formidable obstacle to an oppressed group's liberation is its conception of human nature. If selfishness, aggressiveness, the drive to conquer and dominate, really are among defining human traits, as every liberal philosopher since Locke tries to convince us, the oppression in civil society—i.e. in the social sphere not regulated by the state—is a fact of life, and the basic civil relationship between a man and a women will always remain a battlefield. Woman, being less aggressive, is then either the less human of the two and doomed to subjugation, or else she must get more power-hungry herself and try to dominate man. Liberation for both is not feasible.
— Mihailo Markovic
Even freed men will do what they must in Rome.
— Katlyn Charlesworth, While Rome Burned
Even though this generation still believes in the miracle working power of God, they must no longer wait for God to bring water from the rocks, but rather construct dams, water systems, subdue the power of the ocean thereby give glory to God almighty
— Sunday Adelaja
It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. Unfortunately, I see the solar industry mounting inverters on bedroom walls also!
— Steven Magee
There is an apparent need to save the earth and the means God chose to do this is not by sending POWER but by sending his Son
— Sunday Adelaja
Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth
— Sunday Adelaja
If God the Father and God the Son use light, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom to function on the earth, it means that is the greatest power in existence.
— Sunday Adelaja
The biggest power play in the world is understanding your own power and then unleashing it to reach your goals and follow your dreams.
— La La Anthony
I'm always in Awe of God's Greatness, His M. O. (Method of Operation), His timing, His Might and His Power. He's God all by Himself!!! Abba, I love You.
— Pazaria Smith
This is the word of the LORD saying, Not by Might, nor by Power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
— Pazaria Smith
Even though this generation still believes in the miracle working power of God, they must no longer wait for God to bring water from the rocks, but rather construct dams, develop water systems, subdue the power of the ocean and thereby give glory to God almighty.
— Sunday Adelaja
The Protestants believe in the higher power through the truth they derive from the word of God. They got to know the truth and that truth set them free and they took the truth to the society and set their whole generation free.
— Sunday Adelaja
Ignorance is a sickness every person should avoid.. as once you are infected by it.. it becomes a morbid rotation that sometimes can be hard to escape from.
— Manos Abou Chabke
Thatcher set ordinary people free, but into a landscape that her other policies had already shaped to suit other, more powerful interests, such as large corporations or Britons with inherited wealth.
— Andy Beckett
SEXPussy, pussy, pussy.Cock, cock, cock.Ass, ass, ass.The games we play.No, no, no, makes us obsessed to the point of insanity.Yes, yes, yes, makes us superior to the point of cruelty.It's just a fuck, after all.
— Robert  Black
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
— Edward Abbey
To attain power, one must first obtain riches, for almost everything of the world revolves about it.
— Ndiritu Wahome, The Girl With The Flawless Face
Tracker Marks was of a different opinion. Though he seemed more white than a white man, he had no time for their ways. For him his dress, his deportment was no different than staying downwind in the shadows of trees when hunting, blending into the world of those he hunted, rather than standing out from it. Once he had excelled at the emu dance & the kangaroo dance; then his talent led him to the whitefella dance, only now no-one was left of his tribe to stand around the fire & laugh & praise his talent for observation & stealthy imitation.The whites have no law, he told Capois Death, no dreaming. Their way of life made no sense whatsoever. Still, he did not hate them or despise them. They were stupid beyond belief, but they had a power, & somehow their stupidity & their power were, in Tracker Marks’s mind, inextricably connected. But how? he asked Capois Death. How can power & ignorance sleep together? Questions to which Capois Death had no answer.
— Richard Flanagan
When you believe you have lost your power and control nothing will ever seem easy or simple.
— Shannon L. Alder
She was the storm, she was the lightning...
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
I know there are powers I can't discern and things that bend and shape us that we cannot see.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse
It’s just another stop on the curvy roadthe final encounterfor the man who has liveddeath is the answer.
— Mie Hansson, Where Pain Thrives
We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms, it ‘excludes’, it ‘represses’... in fact power produces, it produces reality, it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth.
— Michel Foucault
She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.
— Katherine Boo
No matter the feelings. You can transform the energy of your emotions into your power.
— Matthew Donnelly
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, The Prophet
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, Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease
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, Awakening Inner Guru
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, The Body Electric
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, Return to Island X
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 Bone Clocks
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, Raven's Breath
Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates!
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
We come into this world through women: a woman who is spent, broken open, in awe. No wonder women have been worshiped ever since men first saw the crowning of a head, here, legs spread, a brushstroke of light. We are fire. We are water. We are earth. We are air. We are all things elemental. The world begins with "Yes,"Changing women: we begin again like the moon. We can no longer deny the destiny that is ours by becoming women who wait: waiting to love, waiting to speak, waiting to act. This is not patience, but pathology. We are sensual, sexual beings, intrinsically bound to both heaven and earth, our bodies a hologram. In our withholding of power, we abrogate power, and that creates war. The Australian poet Judith Wright says, "Our dream was the wrong dream, our strength was the wrong strength. Wounded, we cross the desert's emptiness and must be false to what would make us whole.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
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, Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease
The sword of Zulfiqar is a perfect fusion of power and function
— Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
Feel da power swallow you whole. Let go an’ lose yo’self in it.
— Jason Medina, A Ghost In New Orleans
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, Rat Queens, Vol. 2: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth
The only thing more compelling than love is power.
— Claudia Gray, Steadfast
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, The Polygamous Sex
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, From the Child's Point of View
You like it. Knowing things about people. It makes you feel powerful.
— Sara Wolf, Savage Delight
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, The Polygamous Sex
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, If I Resist
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, The Falcon in the Barn
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, The Age of Scorpio
[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, Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks: Adapted to the Present State of Great Britain
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, If I Resist
You could pay for power, but would never buy dignity.
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, Light Forensics
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, Daily Drive 365
These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
— Edward Snowden
Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?It doesn't.
— Ramez Naam, Crux
The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.
— Ally Condie, Atlantia
The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant group.
— Simon Tam
My heart's made of goldMy soul is pure steelLoved ones shall riseEnemies will kneelI soothe with water, attack with fireFor I am the master of my own empire.
— Sarah Brownlee
People often don't understand the engine that drives corruption. Particularly in India, they assume government equals corruption, private companies equal efficiency. But government officials are not genetically programmed to be corrupt. Corruption is linked to power. If it is the corporations that are powerful, then they will be corrupt.
— Arundhati Roy, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
In Zen, there is an old saying: The obstacle is the path. Know that a whole and happy life is not free of obstacles. Quite the contrary, a whole and happy life is riddled with obstacles-they simply become the very stepping-stones that help lift us to a new perspective. It is not what happens to us in this life that shapes us, it is how we choose to respond to what happens to us.
— Dennis Merritt Jones, The Art of Being: 101 Ways to Practice Purpose in Your Life
Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.
— Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Isn't there a flaw in the logic of that phrase - speak truth to power? It assumes that power doesn't know the truth. But power knows the truth just as well, if not better, than the powerless know the truth. Enron knows what it's doing. We don't have to tell it what it's doing. We have to tell other people what Enron is doing. Similarly, the people who are building the dams know what they're doing. The contractors know how much they're stealing. The bureaucrats know how much they're getting in bribes.Power knows the truth. There isn't any doubt about that. It is really about telling the story. Good fiction is the truest thing that ever there was. Facts are not necessarily the only truths. Facts can be fiddled with by economists and bankers. There are other kinds of truth. It's about telling the story. As a writer, that's the best thing I can do. It's not just about digging up facts.
— Arundhati Roy, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
We are all capable of being great dreamers. We must awaken the divinity within us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Clarity enables Empowerment
— Millen Livis