Quotes About Power

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of every emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

This was love, and I was astonished by its power.

she could squeeze the balls off a buffalo nickel.

experts in my field have acknowledged that the need to have control over another human being was an example of abuse.

Say your prayers, girl. Prayers work miracles; don't you see that much yet?

Words matter . . . They really do.

Again in the dark, sea-scented night, he was filled with power and excitement and rhythm.

What a ghastly thing to have sensitive, helpless human beings absolutely in the power of other human beings! Absolute, unquestioned power! Nobody can stand that. It's cold poison. How many wardens of prisons are driven sadistically mad with it!

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

The strong could make their own law, live their own lives; in fact, they were beyond good and evil. What was good and what was evil? It is easy enough to stifle conscience for a time. The satisfied flesh has its own law.

What have I kept of Rae Evans from the moment when she half stood behind her desk and held out her hand to shake mine? I think it is the impression of white--white face, white shirt between two halves of a power dark suit. Hers were night colors, and though it was early in the morning, and she was my new boss, it seemed as though the business day had not quite caught up to us, and maybe never would.

But feelings aren't like thoughts, they can't be changed at will.

Everything, good or bad, was down to me.

Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.

I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

My only gift can be this blazing blade, this knife's sharp constancy.

charts in vivid detail precisely how the shape of her life and the choices she makes are defined by her reduction to a sexual object, an object to be raped, bred, or abused."2

Race persists because it continues to be politically useful.