Quotes About Power

Mighty brawn is no match for a nimble brain.

Strength alone is not enough in this world; divine grace is needed.

Every victim will, given a chance, turn victimizer.

A king uses his power to serve people and create an ecosystem where people can outgrow hunger and fear. When a king uses his power to dominate those around him, it reveals the king has not outgrown his hunger and fear; he is not yet Ram. Likewise, a king's agent uses his power to serve his master. When a king's agent uses his power to dominate those around him, it reveals he has not outgrown his hunger and fear; he is not yet Hanuman.

Kali with the most primal form of nature, before culture and outside culture, unaffected by rules and opinions of humanity. She is power, raw and elemental, both venerable and frightening. Human society is created within her; she ultimately consumes human society.

Hanuman stands on the frontier between the wilderness and the settlement, between the animal and the human world, and has the power to turn the negative into positive, poison into medicine.

Unlike dakshina, where wealth is asked in exchange, and bhiksha, where power is asked in exchange, in daan only wisdom is sought in exchange.

With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please. —Jeremiah 27:5

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Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream...

Don't ever 'influence' me against my will again, MacLachlan,. Or I will load your balls into my Cuisinart and press 'chop.

Testosterone poisoning can be fatal, Braveheart." (Delaney to Rowan)

Almost anyone can bear adversity…but if you want to reveal someone's true character, give them power.

a man who uses a woman for his own sexual gratification, but belittles her into thinking she is no good in bed, is not a dominant personality, but a submissive one.

More you feel passion, more you lose control

Dreams have the power to make real what the heart desires.

Go through the gate. Let our love support you through your own self-judgment. Over you the dark shall have no power. Farewell—we release you into the Lady's waiting arms. . . .

Although Lewis's Trilogy is too often portrayed as an uninformed and inaccurate attack on science, a closer look reveals that it is, in fact, a prophetic warning against scientism and an inspiring vision for a regenerate science. Lewis warns that scientism -- a caricature of science that rejects all moral goods except survival and abandons objective truth in favor of power -- will dehumanize us by stripping us of pity, happiness, and freedom.

We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren't violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn't matter if our leaders are kings and queens, or the people who claim to save us from them.

The world changes. Now, one needs no army and no sword to conquer the world.

Ancestors who had held themselves higher than God, and had been brought lower than man.

They stared at each other and then, at last, Kai closed his eyes and nodded his head, just once. The estates would always win.

True hunger was a weapon stronger than any of his abstract desires. It's what toppled countries and made men desperate.

When we have the ability to save someone's life, and we decide they aren't worthy of being saved—isn't that playing God as well?