Quotes About Power

The opposite of innocence is not sin. Dearly beloved, the opposite of innocence is strength.

don't call it a period: call it an exclamation point

boom! powering underwater, mermaid made real I felt my gills growing I could breathe without air.

If you touch me, I'll cram your nose into your brain with the heel of my hand.

I felt so powerful that I wanted to go to Costco and wheel out a freezer on a dolly while waving around an old Safeway receipt, just because I knew I could. It's easy. I'm supposed to be so harmless and weak and afraid that no one pays attention. But those weeks of dye stripping and returning to my natural state created a phenomenon in which the world had literally become mine for the taking.

When ambitious men overcome a dynasty and seize power, they inevitably adopt most of the ways of their predecessors. —THE Muqaddimah OF IBN KHALDÛN

If one plays on fear, takes away any remotely complicated ideas, and offers people a sense of confidence and right, one's followers will beat to death any enemy they are pointed at.

were she not aware that he was more than a man who could make plants grow. And

A woman who plays by men's rules is a woman who ends up in a cage." "Or a coffin.

all six of them a license." "That

Words, the acid-bath of words.

Minds dismembered by their sexual part' Balthazar had said once 'never find peace until old age and failing power as persuade them that silence and quietness are not hostile.

King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

We're in a world that is run by accountants and I think that it's sad in many ways.

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.