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Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.
— Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power
Now, sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion. Instead, they use words like ideology, politics, defence, security, patriotism, commerce, industry, marketing, consumerism and belief. But where there is power-seeking, especially power over others or for oneself, though also over oneself, and be it wittingly or unwittingly conjured up, make no mistake: there is sorcery afoot. It just comes in different shades and colours, that's all.
— H.M. Forester, Game of Aeons
She would rather remain silent, but her voice is no longer something to fear. It’s strong. Powerful. A weapon of emotions.
— Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Then she was supposed to like it. To make her do something she didn't like and then make her like it, that was greater power. The greatest power of all is when she doesn't really like it but she's supposed to like it, so she has to pretend.
— Margaret Atwood, Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems
If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.
— Louis L'Amour, Comstock Lode
And now, when Mother called to wake me up for the New Year, I first wanted to pray, but it turned into thanks, darling, for all that God had given us this year. For his wonderful ways with us, even if we don't understand it all now. For his love, that in all our disappointments and sorrow he himself helps us to bear it all, so that all this turns into a blessing because we feel his nearness and can take up our cross joyfully. And so we may know, and we do experience, that his power is made perfect in our weakness.
— Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?... Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to..." (1995)
— George Soros
There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will.
— Fernán Caballero
I would be bored to death if I didn't control a country--Gin
— Mayu Shinjo
That public men publish falsehoodsIs nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you. Watch the wheel slope and tum. They are all bound on the wheel, these people, those warriors, This republic, Europe, Asia. Observe them gesticulating, Observe them going down. The gang serves lies, the passionate Man plays his part; the cold passion for truthHunts in no pack. You are not CatulIus, you know, To lampoon these crude sketches of Caesar. You are far From Dante’s feet, but even farther from his dirty Political hatredS. Let boys want pleasure, and menStruggle for power, and women perhaps for fame, And the servile to serve a Leader and the dupes to be duped. Yours is not theirs.
— Robinson Jeffers, Selected Poems
This, not incidentally, is another perfect setting for deindividuation: on one side, the functionary behind a wall of security glass following a script laid out with the intention that it should be applied no matter what the specific human story may be, told to remain emotionally disinvested as far as possible so as to avoid preferential treatment of one person over another - and needing to follow that advice to avoid being swamped by empathy for fellow human beings in distress. The functionary becomes a mixture of Zimbardo's prison guards and the experimenter himself, under siege from without while at the same time following an inflexible rubric set down by those higher up the hierarchical chain, people whose job description makes them responsible, but who in turn see themselves as serving the general public as a non-specific entity and believe or have been told that only strict adherence to a system can produce impartial fairness. Fairness is supposed to be vested in the code: no human can or should make the system fairer by exercising judgement. In other words, the whole thing creates a collective responsibility culminating in a blameless loop. Everyone assumes that it's not their place to take direct personal responsibility for what happens; that level of vested individual power is part of the previous almost feudal version of responsibility. The deindividuation is actually to a certain extent the desired outcome, though its negative consequences are not.
— Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant
Because our power is motivating, and gives momentum and ownership of changes to those who dream of failure.
— Lisa McMann
Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con tricks - they're not even necessarily against our direct interests, although sometimes they can be - but they are hacks for the human mind, ways of manipulating us into particular decisions we otherwise might not make. They are also, in a way, deliberate underminings of the core principle of the free market, which derives its legitimacy from the idea that informed self-interest on aggregate sets appropriate prices for items. The key word is 'informed'; the point of behavioural economics - or rather, of its somewhat buccaneering corporate applications - is to skew our perception of the purchase to the advantage of the company. The overall consequence of that is to tilt the construction of our society away from what it should be if we were making the rational decisions classical economics imagines we would, and towards something else.
— Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.
— Harry Truman
There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys -- prosecution and defense -- dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke that the lawyers did not laugh at.
— Michael Connelly, A Darkness More Than Night
Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh you down, a simple trophy can go a long, long way.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Concentrated power is bad""(name of chapter)
— William J. Federer, Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic
A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air.
— Mehmet Murat ildan, Galileo Galilei
In utopia, rule by masterminds is both necessary and necessarily primitive, for it excludes so much that is known to man and about man. The mastermind is driven by his own boundless conceit and delusional aspirations, which he self-identifies as a noble calling. He alone is uniquely qualified to carry out this mission. He is, in his own mind, a savior of mankind, if only man will bend to his own will. Such can be the addiction of power. It can be an irrationally egoistic and absurdly frivolous passion that engulfs even sensible people. In this, mastermind suffers from a psychosis of sorts and endeavors to substitute his own ambitions for the individual ambitions of millions of people.
— Mark R. Levin, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that c
— Vera Nazarian
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ... Refuse to participate in evil; insist on taking part in what is healthy, generous, and responsible. Stand up, speak out, and when necessary fight back. Get down off the fence and lend a hand, grab a-hold, be a citizen - not a subject.
— Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power.
— Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Power is meant to be shared with the goal of empowering others. Hoarded power weakens others and exalts oneself. Power, when grounded in biblical values, serves others by liberating them. It acknowledges that people bear the image of God and treats them in a way that will nurture the development of that image. In so doing, we honor their Creator.
— Duane Elmer, Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility
We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.
— Kenzaburō Ōe
Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.
— Duane Elmer, Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility
A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of outlook, will also one day - despite all hindrances - enforce its realisation in all domains.
— Alfred Rosenberg, The Myth of the Twentieth Century
Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
...the magic was a tool, though a natural, mysterious tool. In its awareness of the magic, his human nature had desired to connect with it, to use it. The whisperings were the voice of his own awakening, not the seductive call of a dark power. Using it was not corruption, but a natural extension of his being. And he could control the manner in which he used it. He would.
— Derek Donais, MetalMagic: Talisman
Try telling the boy who’s just had his girlfriend’s namecut into his arm that there’s slippage between the signifierand the signified. Or better yet explain to the girlwho watched in the mirror as the tattoo artist stitchedthe word for her father’s name (on earth as in heaven)across her back that words aren’t made of flesh and blood,that they don’t bite the skin. Language is the animalwe’ve trained to pick up the scent of meaning. It’s whywhen the boy hears his father yelling at the doorhe sends the dog that he’s kept hungry, that he’s kicked,then loved, to attack the man, to show him that every wordhas a consequence, that language, when used right, hurts.
— Todd Davis
Well then, take this thought with you for the dark hours to come: It is a ludicrous fiction that love conquers all, but it can, in fact, conquer quite a lot. I am Iason of the Blood, Knight of Arthur, King of the Britons, reborn into dark service in the year of Our Lord five hundred and sixty. My power is vast, and for none to arrogate but by my will and decree. My services are engaged, Selina. Tell me what you need to ease your pain in this, and it is yours.
— Chris Dee, Cat-Tales Book 3
fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, because they see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine.
— Titus Lucretius Carus
There is a force that drives everything in this universe;you may call it anything you like, names that fit in tongue;when you're close to it, you have the power to do anything.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.
— John Kremer
The day of democracy is past," he said. "Past for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when marching infantry, when common men in masses ceased to win the battles of the world, when costly cannon, great ironclads, and strategic railways became the means of power. To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before—it commands earth and sea and sky. All power is for those who can handle wealth....
— H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes
It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.
— George Soros
Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code -- a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people--or, rather, there aren't any right people.
— B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My main concern is with the world order
— George Soros, The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror
We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral justification of their crimes. These are the theories of well-meaning children who see everything in black or white, dream of nothing but angels or demons, and have no idea of the incredible number of hypocritical masks of every color and shape and size which men use to conceal their features when they have passed the age of devotion to ideals and have abandoned themselves unrestrainedly to their egotistic desires
— Alfred de Vigny, Stello
In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.
— Jean Baker Miller
I know that you are a mere flea! I know that you need only be squashed to be done away with! I know that I have fought this same battle a thousand thousand times before...but, perhaps this time I can crush you like the insect you are!
— Marv Wolfman, Fantastic Four: In Search of Galactus
Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way-- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it's merely their guess.
— B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.
— L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks the majority opinion: 'Water power, the right to convert it into electric energy, and the electric energy thus produced constitute property belonging to the United States.
— Susan Quinn, The Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times
The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.
— George Soros, The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror
As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.
— George Soros
Power,' as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, 'enters the picture in two ways': the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, 'deviants are those who simply do not have enough power to prevent others from defining them as such'.
— Shuli Barzilai, Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times
She'll be apples
— April Lurie, The Latent Powers of Dylan Fontaine
He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.
— Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana
The source of desire to be driven by power and spread of influence makes its owner dangerous to its privileges, as it not only transforms the people who are beholden to its master, but as well creates fearful dictators and oligarchs.
— Sirio Berati
So long as I perceive the world as hostile, I remain linked to it: *I am not crazy*. But sometimes, once my bad temper is exhausted, I have no language left at all: the world is not "unreal" (I could then utter it: there are arts of the unreal, among them the greatest arts of all), but disreal: reality has fled from it, is nowhere, so that I no longer have any meaning (any paradigm) available to me; *I do not manage* to define my relations with Coluche, the restaurant, the painter, the Piazza del Popolo. What relation can I have with a system of power if I am neither its slave nor its accomplice nor its witness."  —from_A Lover's Discourse: Fragments_
— Roland Barthes
Magick is not a supernatural power granted by spirits or demons. True magick is a natural power which exists in every person, and we have neglected it because of misguided principles.
— Charbel Tadros
Kindnessis never weaknessif it has potentialto cause death.So, if you can“kill them with kindness,”the ball is in your court.YOU have the power!
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
You can be the most powerful witch in the land, but you will always have a weakness, and that will always make you believe you have no power when someone exploits it. There is no greater strength than the ability to understand and accept your own flaws.
— Rin Chupeco, The Bone Witch
Words got the power to hurt or heal.
— L M Bryski, Book of Birds
Most of us do not realize how much power we have.
— Bumper Sticker (anon.)
The world has achieved the most of so far, now it is after losing everything in this race of power.
— Mahrukh
Nostalgia, she knew, has the power to make you smile and also to make you cry.
— Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma
The reason you’re going through what you’re going through is to receive the things you’ve been praying for.
— Jeanette Coron
It's clear that equality doesn't quite cut it. Asking for a sliver of disproportionate power is too polite a request. I don't want to be included. Instead, I want to question who created the standard in the first place.
— Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
Everyone who searches for power, without exception, searches for battle. Do you fight in order to become more powerful? Or do you want more power so you can fight?
— Lucifer
A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.
— Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
That's what you would do with untold power? Eat cake?
— Desiree Williams, Illusionary
Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away; it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline."Now, what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of getting the power changes you so that you won't abuse it.
— Michael Critchton
That seductive aroma of unchecked power was more than enough to commit genocide and mass sexual assault while unashamedly carrying their nation’s flag draped around a crucifix. People completely devoid of introspection, flaunting their entitlement and a self-importance that masked an endless pit of dejection that demanded more gold, land, and power. The Spanish crown was a plague of miserable dimensions for Chamorros.
— M.B. Dallocchio, The Desert Warrior
Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act in accordance with the content of the command; the sting remains behind in him. When a command functions normally and as one expects, there is nothing to be seen of the sting; it is hidden and unsuspected and may only reveal its existence by some faint, scarcely perceptible recalcitrance before the command obeyed.
— Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power
Every command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out.
— Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power
You must never forget these three things when you have comfort: enjoy it, but with care; let it be truly relevant to lives as a true service to God; and leave noble and lasting footprints with it that will inspire, bring relief and serve as a lasting epitome of goodness to your next generation!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
In everything you encounter in life you have a choice. Even if that choice is just in how you will react and move forward. The moment you become cognizant of your choices is the moment in which you also realize your own power. Choices equal power. You have the power to make things better for yourself. Even if it is just your mindset, which is actually a lot. Your perspective, your take on things, dictates your experience. Your quality of life is contingent on how you see things. Realizing that, is where the real power lies. You can make something from anything.
— Akiroq Brost
For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.
— Václav Havel, The Power of the Powerless
Well, what do they all amount to, these kings and captains and bishops and lawyers and such like? They just leave you in the ditch to bleed to death; and the next thing is, you meet them down there, for all the airs they give themselves.
— George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan
If I am capable I am power if I rise I am unstoppable if I challenge my fears I am invincible. Believe in the power of you
— Bluenscottish
There is only one you.And there will never be another one.Thats your power
— Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage
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— Anne Carson, Antigonick
I'm surrounded by men substituting presence for paper and powerFemales whose foundation is filtering their flaws for fameChildren teared up by more issues than tissues to on tear upLeaders promising yester year promises whilst subjects smoke lies like crackHusbands not ashamed to break their own rib giving dogs a good run for that boneFiends disguised as friends with loyalty as strong as spaghettiFamilies turned into factories, do as you're told, cave into the mold, become like the rest pf the foldSociety nonchalant, busy growing a beard, blind to it's beastly reality
— Evy Michaels
Who would have ever though that a person could be so powerful, then so completely powerless, all in the same lifetime?
— Firoozeh Dumas, It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Maybe niceness is the wrong metric, I said. Of course it's really about power, Bobbi agreed. But it's harder to work out who has the power, so instead we rely on 'niceness' as a kind of stand-in. I mean this is an issue in public discourse. We end up asking like, is Israel 'nicer' than Palestine.
— Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.
— Alan Moore, Fashion Beast
I will always believe in you. And that’s more powerful than memory.
— Emory R. Frie, Neverland
It was not a comfortable Throne, this seat made of stone. But power was not supposed to be comfortable.
— Elizabeth D. Marie, Chasing Cinders
Those on the decline always criticize those on the rise.
— Karen Essex, Pharaoh
Real power isn't the ability to harm or meddle, Real power is overcoming your frailty when every sinew of your mind tells you it's impossible. Real power is facing up to your problems when you want to hid from them. Real power is picking yourself up from a fall and redoubling your efforts. Real power is the strength to choose what is right.
— Tony Moyle, The Limpet Syndrome
What is the point of having all this power if you can’t force people to do what you want?
— Ian Gregoire, The Exercise of Vital Powers
Power doesn't equal worth. Wisdom is a far greater virtue.
— Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Myth
Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.
— Christopher Paolini, Eldest
The God is wild, but his is the wildness of connection, not of domination and violence. Wildness is not the same as violence. Gentleness and tenderness do no translate into wimpiness. When men -- or women, for that matter -- begin to unleash what is untamed in us, we need to remember that the first images and impulses we encounter will often be the stereotyped paths of power we have learned in a culture of domination. To become truly wild, we must not be sidetracked by the dramas of power-over, the seduction of addictions, or the thrill of control. We must go deeper.
— Starhawk, The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess
And that luck was only fate's cheating, giving an illusion of power. But that illusion lingered, and I became restless. I decided to act, to challenge fate. (...) I gained courage; every afternoon I walked a little farther. And one day I got there.
— V.S. Naipaul
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love.
— Washington Irving
There was power all around, that power and that goodness, which make us come, as it were, outside our bodily selves, to share them. Over and beside us breathes the joy of hope and promise; under foot are troubles past; in the distance bowering newness tempts us ever forward. We quicken with largesse of life, and spring with vivid mystery.
— R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone
Of course we're guilty!-That's what we've got pardons for!
— Anthony T. Hincks
Who's got the last laugh now?If you will pardon the expression.
— Anthony T. Hincks
I began writing about power because I had so little.
— Octavia E. Butler
I called the desert into a storm.
— Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne
There is no such thing as a world without combat, no civilization which doesn't start off by laying down the rules for relations between people. But the rules are there for the weak. The strong man experiments to find out how far they can be stretched, he creates his own rules. You would like everything to be based on the goodwill and charity of one's fellow men. But if there is no private profit to be made, there will be no progress.
— Henning Mankell, Kennedy's Brain
If we don’t manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a world of withering expectations, we have to rewrite the script of our life. ("Into a new life")
— Erik Pevernagie
His gaze, lowered toward the ground, slowly, leisurely drifts up, until it slams into mine with the heavy force of steel against steel. The green is back, emerald flames dancing behind clouds of black and grey. And with just that single look, his head slightly dipped, I know . . . Here, right now, I’m the one with all the power.
— T.L. Martin, Touched by Death
Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.
— DaShanne Stokes
You have more power than you know, Samantha. You just have to be brave enough to realize it.
— Adriana Mather, How to Hang a Witch
The only power worth a snot is the power to get up after you fall down.
— G. Willow Wilson, Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why
But there are many ways to be powerful. There is power in stillness. There is power in watching, waiting, saying the right thing at the right time to the right person. There is power in being a woman---oh yes, power in these bodies you gaze upon with derision.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
What would you sacrifice for power?
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
It is the feeling of never knowing what we want that truly drives us all mad.... Holding things because we think in a moment we love them only to uncurl our fingers later and softly give them back to the earth.
— Christopher Poindexter, Naked Human
This is your life, you have the power to make it as WONDERFUL as you want it to be. Do not hold back. Find your JOY; live your Love!!!
— Latika Teotia
No power is born of hate.All power and authority is born of love.Oh, you, who want any power somewhere!Ask yourselves who and what you love?
— Osyp Nazaruk, Roxelana
In 1789 the French rebelled and found an emperor. The Americans found their freedom from the British and enslaved the Africans. The Arab Spring bloomed and the military and the jihadists seized power. The internet gave us all the power of speech, and what did we discover? That victory goes to he who shouts the loudest, and that reason does not sell.
— Claire North, The Sudden Appearance of Hope
Your troubles, pressures, fears, and uncertainties will shoot you to greatness if only you trust in God.
— WISDOM KWASHIE MENSAH (WKM)
When thinking is overrated And friends are easy to make, Check if it's too complicated Knowing yourself somehow... Inner peace's not hard to take, Never lost or underestimated. Get out of social media... NOW!
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
The power we hold comes with an added responsibility to inspire through words or actions and build someone else's life. Our power definitely does not lie in zapping others of their powers.
— Tina Sequeira, SOUL SOJOURN
(about Gideon's army)Like the pitchers that held the torches, our bodies are weak and fragile, yet they hold the fire of the Holy Spirit. That fire burns in us waiting to be released so that others can see it. The light was released when the pitchers were broken. Sometimes we need to be broken to release the light in us. Our weakness allows the light of God to be seen.
— Teresa Schultz, The Bible In Poetry,
Power does not always shout its presence, my Lady, and each of the two hundred men armed behind you on this road represent a thousand more ready to die at your command. Every word you speak has the weight of those men.
— Jean Gill, Song at Dawn: 1150 in Provence
Women's curiosity was given a negative connotation, whereas men were called investigative. Women were called nosy, whereas men were called inquiring. In reality, the trivialization of women's curiosity so that it seems like nothing more than irksome snooping denies women's insight, hunches, and intuitions. It denies all her senses. It attempts to attack her fundamental power.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority
— Ray Palla, H: Infidels of Oil
A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Power is the crown that eats the head,”...
— Pierce Brown, Golden Son
...power doesn’t shift. Power is resolute. It is the mountain, not the wind. To shift so easily is to lose trust.
— Pierce Brown, Golden Son
If you unload your anger on others its your Weakness And if you learn to absorb your anger inside you Then its your Power.
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
oo many people are profoundly illiterate in power (TED Talk: Why ordinary people need to understand power). As a result, it’s become ever easier for those who do understand how power operates in civic life to wield a disproportionate influence and fill the void created by the ignorance of the majority.
— Eric Liu, The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
Powerful leaders use their position of power to empower others.
— Gift Gugu Mona
And that brings me to my definition of power, which is simply this: the capacity to make others do what you would have them do. It sounds menacing, doesn't it? We don't like to talk about power. We find it scary. We find it somehow evil. We feel uncomfortable naming it. In the culture and mythology of democracy, power resides with the people.
— Eric Liu, The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
The power of ignorance can make a powerful man look powerless
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Power inheres in a center. You're going to the center.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Just because you shot Jesse James...don't make you Jesse 
— Mike Ehrmantraut
How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?”Winston thought. “By making him suffer,” he said.“Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?...
— George Orwell, 1984
Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.
— Condoleezza Rice
The power to pray is the grace we need.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'And the other answers, 'Because they could.'That is the only answer there ever is.
— Naomi Alderman, The Power
All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they think you are part of their we. A we is so powerful. It is the most corrupt and formidable institution on earth. Its hands are full of the crispest and most persuasive currency. Its mouth is full of received, repeating language. The we closes its ranks to protect the space inside it, where the air is different. It does not protect people. It protects its own shape.
— Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy: A Memoir
We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of dreams, desires, and obsessive thoughts. But in this period of exceptional creativity, we are impelled by the need to get something done that has a practical effect. We force ourselves to step outside our inner chamber of habitual thoughts and connect to the world, to other people, to reality. Instead of flitting here and there in a state of perpetual distraction, our minds focus and penetrate to the core of something real. At these moments, it is as if our minds—turned outward—are now flooded with light from the world around us, and suddenly exposed to new details and ideas, we become more inspired and creative.
— Robert Greene, Mastery
[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.
— Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
They will not be swayed, they have power in their sights and are blinded by its alluring glister.
— A.H. Septimius, Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
it tooklosing himto finally findmyself.It tooklosing hima second timeto be sureof myself.thatwas myfirst actofself-love.
— Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One
There are times when your body takes control. Times when the gazelle says, ‘Fuck you, lioness,’ and delivers the biggest kick of its whole gazelley life.
— Harry Bingham
To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth.
— Kenneth Eade, Political Thriller: Unwanted, an American Assassin Story: an assassination, vigilante justice and terrorism thriller
The culture of power versus the power of culture,” he quoted. “One side always loses.
— Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Unquiet Dead
Capability doesn't equal intent, Doctor. Do you want what she knows or not? Because if you keep looking at her like the caged lab rat, she'll keep looking at you like the evil bloody scientist with the big syringe.
— Joel Shepherd, Crossover
The power to kill does not come without responsibility
— Kenneth Eade, An Evil Trade: A Paladine Political Thriller
Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Borders of Infinity
Seeking help is not defeat. It is my power.
— Catherine Jane Fisher, I am Catherine Jane: The True Story of One Woman's Quest for Justice
Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (...) But 'tis at the edges that they find their power.
— Hannah Kent, The Good People
There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it, no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.
— James Roysmith
I am not to be underestimated. Overestimated, maybe, but underestimated? No.
— Saumya Sharman, The Ultimate Journey
I’ve come to see “Bitches be crazy” as less a statement by men that women are crazy or even a reappropriated statement by women defending their own madness. Instead, I see the phrase and imagine a colon after “bitches,” rendering it a command to other women, a battle cry. It is a way of saying, “We took back ‘bitch’ already. And now we have come for ‘crazy.
— Alana Massey, All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
In the palace, during my imprisonment, I learned that Maven had been made by his mother, formed into the monster he became. There is nothing on earth that can change him or what she did. But Cal was made too. All of us were made by someone else, and all of us have some thread of steel that nothing and no one can cut. I thought Cal was immune to the corruptive temptation of power. How wrong I was. He was born to be a king. It's what he was made for. It's what he was made to want.
— Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage
I had tasted power and I had used it up, but now I would get more of another kind. We would share it, and keep each other from the dark.
— E.K. Johnston, A Thousand Nights
Word-Power'Being stuck in my room,I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now
— Munia Khan
You know, you're too pretty for me to leave you on the couch like that," he said, pulling me toward him. I didn't know that, but I did understand then that there was no such thing as safe, only safer; that this, if it didn't happen now, would happen later but not better.
— Danielle Evans, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.
— Wendell Berry
The only way to stop a malignant narcissist with sadistic tendencies is to deprive them of that which they desire...Never to yield...Never to surrender and never to relinquish any personal power.
— Anita B. Sulser
O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.
— John Webster, The White Devil
Power is a funny thing. Sometimes you can just take it.
— Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories
We must yield to the power of words. Even God has chosen words to communicate with his creatures like us
— Munia Khan
One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and Eve's.
— Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Every exercise of power incorporates a faint, almost imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can only dominate another human soul if one knows, understands, and with the utmost tact despises the person one is subjugating.
— Sándor Márai, Embers
We are the Dragon-Hearted.
— Rachel L. Schade, Forsaken Kingdom
The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it—they are powerless to deny it while still claiming to be rational. In principle, it is the ideas themselves that are, as we say, compelling, but their champions are not always averse to helping the ideas along with tactics of verbal dominance, among them intimidation (“Clearly . . .”), threat (“It would be unscientific to . . .”), authority (“As Popper showed . . .”), insult (“This work lacks the necessary rigor for . . .”), and belittling (“Few people today seriously believe that . . .”). Perhaps this is why H. L. Mencken wrote that “college football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students.
— Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
I remember a time when all I wanted was a gun and to learn how to use it. I thought a gun would make me feel safe. I thought a gun would make me feel powerful. But right now I just feel . . . heavy. Like I live in this world of death and destruction and I’ll never escape alive.
— Paula Stokes, Ferocious
A woman armed with ancestral wisdom is a powerful force. You'll find her powers come from within, she is in tune with her spirit, and the magic of the universe. She trusts, values and follows her intuition.
— Lori Bregman
It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.
— Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Struggle of power is natural in human because with power their individuality prevails over others.
— Zaman Ali, Humanity
The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.
— Jim Butcher, Death Masks
In business, everyone has a different weight.
— Nabil N. Jamal
There are two forces at work in the world: the power of light and the power of darkness.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country
— Sunday Adelaja
This is the miracle of all miracles—when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Having more data does not always give you the power to make better decisions.
— Jeffrey Fry
The most sexy trait in a woman is- when she starts taking the world by a storm!
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.
— DaShanne Stokes
Repose is the most expansive posture you can assume. When you are in Repose, your body is as open and extended as it can be. If the power of a pose is determined by how large it makes your body feel and appear, then Repose should be viewed as the ultimate high-power pose.
— Victor Shamas, Repose: The Potent Pause
It is not God’s power that is lacking to accomplish the redemption of nations
— Sunday Adelaja
Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you
— Sunday Adelaja
Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem nations
— Sunday Adelaja
The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
God has given you the power to be the miracle worker.
— Sunday Adelaja
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— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
STAY THE COURSE BY FORCE!
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible.
— Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
To tell a story is to take power over it.
— Mark Doty, Firebird
Women have participated in almost every fight for freedom. They were there when civilians were targeted they were there when the bombs were planted. To argue they didn't have enough power to speak up or they had been brainwashed by their male colleagues is to try to disassociate from the darkness that resides in everyone. And to disassociate from your darkness is to lose your power over it.
— Jessa Crispin, Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
Power is like prostitution and it could have pleasure for a while but it has to go to another man
— Zaman Ali, Humanity
Nobody cared for her until the time she touched everyone like a breeze, but the day she turned into a storm and swept everything on her way out, the world stood still. She was a nightmare none had ever across.
— Akshay Vasu
everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent
— Michel Foucault
She dropped the things she was holding and desperately grabbed onto the table for support, but not before she hit the dresser directly with her stomach. The collision was hard. She expected pain. She expected to scream out. She expected to curdle up on the floor and whimper in agony.But she didn't.She gasped when she saw that due to the impact, the dresser had a minuscule dent. She didn't even feel the hit.
— Deepika Kumaaraguru, Ethereal: The Dawn of the Blue
Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal repercussions, was superior to any other form of power.
— Louise Erdrich, LaRose
MIND YOUR OWN SOCIAL MEDIA BUSINESS 
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
That was Emma—she'd have enjoyed knowing she had something like that, something that could blow her whole fucking life and mine apart if it came out. Her little bit of power.
— J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
TO LIVE A LIFE VOID OF NEED ISA LIFE FILLED WITH DEPRIVATION
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
WORDS HAVE NO EXPIRATION DATE
—  YOU CAN EAT THEM WHENEVER YOU WANT.SO BE SURE TO MAKE EM' YUMMY!
GOD SAYS
—  YOU'LL NEVER LOSE A FIGHT THAT WASN'T FIXED!#HOPENATION
Before you attack the porcupine, think of its quills!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
WRITE YOURSELF OUT OF THE WRONG PLACE!WRITING IS SPIRITUAL THERAPY✏#HOPENATION
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power.
— Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
When it seems there is no way out, it indicates that God wants to manifest His power and glory
— Sunday Adelaja
A terrible independence opens the door to destructive power of sin
— Sunday Adelaja
IT'S ME!
— Terry Crews
To Conquer The Lust For Power Is To Establish A Society A Society That Reflects Heaven On Earth
— Sunday Adelaja
To Influence Every Sphere Of Society Is To Engage The Power Of The Gospel
— Sunday Adelaja
Penetrating influence is in the power and strength of demonstration
— Sunday Adelaja
God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God’s righteousness
— Sunday Adelaja