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Quotes About Power

Rihanna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.
~ Peggy Orenstein
When you're talking about over 26,000 items - and that's just Disney - it's a little hard to say where want ends and coercion begins.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters
~ Pema Chodron
Then the young warrior said, "How can I defeat you?" Fear replied, "My weapons are that I talk fast, and I get very close to your face. Then you get completely unnerved, and you do whatever I say. If you don't do what I tell you, I have no power. You can listen to me, and you can have respect for me. You can even be convinced by me. But if you don't do what I say, I have no power." In that way, the student warrior learned how to defeat fear.
~ Pema Chodron
We turn our emotions into frozen objects and invest them with truth, and as a result they have so much power over us.
~ Pema Chodron
When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!
~ Ice T
Anger - a better alternative to caffeine.
~ Unknown
But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.
~ Unknown
The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
~ Seneca the Younger
Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]
~ Ovid
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.
~ Pietro Aretino
Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated
~ Iyanla Vanzant
what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
~ Audre Lorde
Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.
~ Bruce Cockburn
we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.
~ Euripides
Darkness and anger, when combined, are their own master.
~ S.R. Ford
Harry, " she said quietly, "I know you must be angry."I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry, " I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.
~ Jim Butcher, Changes
Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.
~ Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam
Have you ever realised that if a person can make you angry, that person actually controls you.
~ Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya
They said" Your Anger could Destroy you.." Even if my Brain designed it to Destroy my enemy.
~ Srinivas Shenoy
Anger is a revenge that can never be controlled.
~ Nadair Desmar
A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The Last Argument of Kings.
~ Louis XIV