Quotes About Power

He who is strong does not need the right protection,he who is strong needs the right direction.

Just stories? Stories can build up an empire, or strike down a people. You can spell the most powerful spell, ease a friend's hurt, or break an enemy. Stories make you believe.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.

When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than a common murderer, who at least cuts your throat himself, without persuading YOU to do it.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires

T]he majority possesses an empire so absolute and so irresistible that one must in a way renounce one's rights as a citizen and so to speak one's quality as a man when one wants to deviate from the path it has traced.

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Because of their rejection of the public law, cynical subjects feel as if they have no investment in the big Other, as if they have distanced themselves from its power, but this is belied by their investment in the fantasmatic underside of that law.

The social authority undergoes a radical diminution in its capacity to grant recognition when someone is in love. This transformation grants enormous power to the beloved and, at the same time, lessens the power of the social order over the subject.

The authority that we can't recognize as authority is always more powerful than the openly authoritative authority.

It was if The Wave had taken on a life of its own and now he and his students were literally riding it.

It is not just the language that we are sharing, it is what we don't say. We are calling each other out of loneliness, across space, out of recognition of our beauty and power, and we are willing to go past the destruction and hurt we have done to reach each other.

Its President was Warren Hastings, who ruled with a rod of iron in one hand and a blank cheque from London in the other.[

As someone once said (and no, it wasn't Einstein), "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination." Let us never confuse the two.

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, "A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

I was honestly very nervous of Constance Wheatcroft. And I wasn't the only one. Her entire family was afraid of her. Dogs were afraid of her. Bindweed in the hedge would wither as she passed; birds would forget their nesting instincts and fly back to north Africa at the sound of her hideous cries.

Real fear, he now knew, took its power not from what could happen but what you realize will happen.