Quotes About Power

If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!

Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

The power of an attitude is amazing

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.

If you study the behavior or the attitude of Syria, Iran, and U.S., you understand that these three countries can't come to terms with each other.

I fear that once you put weapons in men's hands, they don't let go of them easily.

Whatever age you are," her mother said tartly, "age is just a number, and numbers have no power over you, unless you allow them to. You can feel 'too old' at any age, if you let yourself. You're never too old or too young for anything, you're just the right age.

he treated her with anger, disrespect, and disdain, to punish her for her success.

It struck both of them that it took so little to either destroy a life or rebuild it. There was only a hair's difference between the two.

He says money always wins the day in the end.

taking the money. She made it sound like more

The fact is saying yes hadn't been a pointless exercise at all. It had been point ful . It had the power to change lives and set people free... It had the power of adventure. Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.

Ultimately, I have no power over what he or any boy thinks of me.

Your muscles can tense with hope.

Technological innovation makes human societies prosperous, but also involves the replacement of the old with the new, and the destruction of the economic privileges and political power of certain people.

The only way of achieving durable liberty is to . . . forge the balance necessary for building a Shackled Leviathan. True liberty can flourish neither without a state nor under the yoke of a Despotic Leviathan. But there is no universal way of building a Shackled Leviathan . . . Every country's prospects are molded by its unique history, the types of coalitions and compromises that are possible, and the exact balance of power between state and society.

Economic institutions that create incentives for economic progress may simultaneously redistribute income and power in such a way that a predatory dictator and others with political power may become worse off.

For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.

We call such institutions, which have opposite properties to those we call inclusive, extractive economic institutions—extractive because such institutions are designed to extract incomes and wealth from one subset of society to benefit a different subset. E