Quotes About Power

You can contol nothing but your own thoughts, but with your thoughts you can control the whole world.

Bad news is that you can control nothing but your thoughts. Good news is that with your thoughts you can control everything else.

Love is the best weapon.

Be so strong that no one can ignore you.

Love is most powerfulLove is most resourcefulLove is most wonderfulLove is most blissful.

Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.

We Kurd must do everything in our power to create structures which prevent the repeat of mass murder by our adversaries, And It's better to call for independence.

Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."-General John JamesCommandant, USMCDecember 11th, 2032

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity

You may have a guardian angel, but I have a uzzi.You work out who's gunna come out on top!

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.