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Quotes About Power

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
~ Joseph Stalin
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
~ Alan Paton
Keep cool and you command everybody.
~ Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.
~ Jim Butcher
All art is made from anger.
~ Lawrence Weiner
Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb
~ Stanley Bing
To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
~ Robert Jordan
Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
~ Henry Cloud
We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.
~ Sophie Hannah
Anger is an emotion preeminently serviceable for the display of power.
~ Walter Bradford Cannon
The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.
~ Maya Angelou
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
~ Audre Lorde
Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Fallout
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
~ Solomon
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.
~ Audre Lorde
Anger assists hands however weak.
~ Ovid
Anger without power is folly.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.
~ Rajneesh
Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.
~ Daniel Pearce
How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?
~ Virgil
When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.
~ Frederick Lenz
That which an enraged woman can accomplish.
~ Virgil