Quotes About Power

He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied. He said that in his opinion it was imprudent to suppose that the dead have no power to act in the world, for their power is great and their influence often most weighty with just those who suspect it least.

There's some things you dont decide. Decidin had nothin to do with it.

Without some redistribution of wealth and power, downward mobility and debilitating poverty will continue to drive people into desperate channels. And without principled opposition to xenophobias from above and below, these desperate channels will produce a cold-hearted and mean-spirited America no longer worth fighting for or living in.

There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America's jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X's} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class [black] leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells.

Words are immortal - Elinor

The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it. - Silvertongue

Girl. Woman. So much more vulnerable. Strong and yet weak. A heart that knew no armor.

Breath the words and they will come to life; as of words of magic

That was the use of knives for women: to cut food for the men who killed with their knives… who killed those women's husbands, their sons, and their daughters.

Although we may wish for it, true magic is a scary thing.

Power. Like wine when you have it. Like poison when you lose it.

Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.

The darkness of the world made no distinctions; it entered its palaces as it did its huts.

A child in the woods. A child with an army.

Aber diesesmal war ihre eigene Geschichte zu stark, um sich von der erfundenen vertreiben zu lassen.

Guilt is a strong motivator, sometimes even stronger than love.

They (books) were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends - daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide.

Molotov explained how that book, should one be foolish enough to open it, gave the power to read things and creatures out of any book in the world.

Life seemed so much stronger than death, death so much stronger than life. Like the ebb and flow of the tide.

only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world. Powerful.

Det var kejsarinnans far som hade stiftat en lag, att föremål, djur och människor med magiska egenskaper var skyldiga att rapporteras. För det var ju inte lätt att regera i en värld där ett guldträd kunde göra en tiggare till kung och talande djur viskade rebelliska visdomsord till skogsarbetarna.

An author can be seen as three things: a storyteller, a teacher or a magician – but the magician, the enchanter is in the ascendant.

well, who says that all gods are kindly? Most of them are stern and cruel, wouldn't you agree?

The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it.