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Quotes About Power

War is the mother of everything.
~ Heraclitus
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
~ Diogenes
The mother tongue is propaganda.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.
~ Winston Churchill
I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.
~ George R. R. Martin
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.
~ Frantz Fanon
Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
~ Jill Scott
If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.
~ Penn Jillette
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
~ Anne Sexton
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
~ Clay Aiken
When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children.
~ Julie B. Beck
Fear, she's the mother of violence.
~ Peter Gabriel
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
~ George Bernard Shaw
My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.
~ Joan Rivers
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences
~ Lorna Luft
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
~ James Russell Lowell
Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.
~ Christopher Heyerdahl
Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)
~ George R. R. Martin
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
~ Virginia Woolf
There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
~ Sarah Addison Allen