Quotes About Power

It's not a boys" club," I said. Not anymore. "It's one of the most powerful secret societies in the world." I should know. I'm a member.

I'd hoped being tapped meant they were willing to listen to someone like me. Apparently, what it really meant is that they hoped they could make someone like me listen to them.

Her Shadowblade Prime was fully roused now, power rolling away from her in uncontrollable waves. Her Blades wouldn't be able to ignore it. She had to get to the vault before they came running to stop her like a horde of hysterical nannies.

He's a politician. Aren't they psychopaths by definition?" Lorraine asked. "Everything for them is about power

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

Gerçekten, kad?nlar?n pencerelerine takt?rd?klar? demir parmakl?klar bana göre cinsel ?iddetin kol gezdi?i bir toplumun en aç?k belirtisidir ve böyle bir toplumda hapishaneye t?k?lanlar kurbanlar?n kendileridir.

I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did you do to the King?

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

The box was beginning to feel like another person in my house, a person with too much power for the space she took up.

Religion seems to have twisted the idea of God into a way to control people.

Perhaps now that she'd told the story, it would lose its power over her. She hoped she would never have to repeat it to anyone ever again.

Violence is the weapon of the weak. - Ralph Abernathy

Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!" Even saints have to start somewhere," Carl said softly. "And it's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands -- and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.

Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It's dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it's not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you'd better watch out." Something bad might happen..." Impossible. But possibly something painful" -A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane

If women were in charge, all men's underwear would come with an expiration date.

Adams had retained his Puritan belief in hierarchy, while Jefferson, for all his aristocratic airs, was committed to leveling power. John still feared the many (as he had observed long ago in Paris), Jefferson the few.

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

Beautiful makes you come back for more. It makes you ask questions. It's vast, unknowable, and magnificent. That's part of its power. It makes you think about the experience it's giving you. That's when I knew what I wanted. I've been chasing it ever since.

A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.

Reading can be dangerous.

Do they suit me? asked the king as he tried them on. "Absolutely," said Rumpelstiltskin's daughter. The guards just stood there, gnashing their teeth, clutching their swords, and peering about with shifty eyes. "Don't you think it's time you got rid of them?" she suggested. "And the walls and the moat and the crocodiles, too. You don't need them anymore--your people love you now.

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care that's what poetry is supposed to do.