Quotes About Power

To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.

Alchemy should have no part in a Je'daii's experience. It is a dark force, arcane and dangerous. It has the power to upset balance. There are other ways.

Unlike him, she can feel the draw of the Chasm and its incredible, primeval power. The Force is in turmoil within her. She feels sick.

If the Force is the dream, you are the dreamer, and sometimes you have to wake up. Sometimes you are all you have.

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

The disciples of Jesus were not to practice politics through the use of coercive power, but through servanthood.

We have too much respect for the printed word, too little awareness of the power words hold over us. We allow worlds to be conjured up for us with very little concern for the implications. We overlook glaring incongruities. We are suckers for alliteration, assonance, and rhythm. We rejoice over stories, whether fiction or "documentary," whose outcomes are flagrantly manipulative, self-serving, or both. Usually both.

In any power game, it seems, the dominant party is the least likely to be aware of what is going on.

Freedom, what crimes are committed in thy name.

He had detailed plans for developing industry, using hydro-electric power – 'the white coal of Ireland'.

For as the poets and the warriors fell by the wayside the bureaucrats took over.

de Valera had better fortune in efforts to regain power. His pacific arguments of August had not found acceptance. A line more likely to secure extremist support was again espoused with such success that by January 1923 he had regained influence once more with the Republican military leadership to a point where he was in a position to draft a statement for Liam Lynch rejecting peace proposals.

De Valera had also been active. He subjected deputies who announced their intention of voting for the Treaty to inquisitions for their threatened lèse-majesté.

Your Government would soon find itself regarded as a tyrannical junta which having got into office by violence was seeking to maintain itself by a denial of constitutional rights.

Once in power, taking advantage of Britain's preoccupation with the Abdication crisis, de Valera introduced a more sectarian, but republican-sounding, Constitution which abolished the Oath and the Governor General, and stands to this day.

success in governing depends on well-contrived antagonisms in the economic and social structure of the state.

Dealing with police and politics were the pivotal props of the system...

On the one hand the Irish began to prove the truth of the assertion that successful revolutions are in fact no more than the kicking down of an already rotted door.

The tiny handful of Volunteers – probably no more than three or four thousand strong countrywide – with their revolvers and shotguns began to paralyse the entire British system, or so it seemed.

the British position was so untenable morally that they could not use their Army properly and were never able to put forth their full military might.

Unlike de Valera whose talent lay in getting and holding power, Collins asked himself the question, 'All this for what?', and tried to provide the answers.

His heartbeat seemed to be shaking him apart, like the impacts of a wrecking ball on an old building.

After several stops, and a dark journey through the tunnel under the bay, B stood up and said, "This is it." They stepped off the train and took an escalator up a level, into a domed area, and then exited the train station. As always when Marla emerged from an underground space into the light, she felt a sense of new possibilities, as if she'd returned from the underworld and brought back secrets. There was power even in symbolic journeys.

I don't want awesome powers. They come with awesome responsibilities, and those suck.