Quotes About Power

Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great orators, great soldiers, great lawyers, often use their gifts for a most unholy cause. We meet to pay a tribute of love and respect to Robert G. Ingersoll because he used his matchless power for the good of man. {Darrow's eulogy for Ingersoll at his funeral}

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts; but, without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

More than one in four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery.

I know that what I am feeling is serious and has the power to destroy me.

Since life's like that: you press a button and life lights up.

Feit is dat ik een levenslot in handen heb en me toch niet bij machte voel om vrijuit te scheppen: ik volg de verborgen lijn van het noodlot. Ik kan niet anders dan een waarheid zoeken die me te boven gaat.

se eu gritasse acordaria milhares de seres gritantes que iniciariam pelos telhados um coro de gritos e horror. Se eu gritasse desencadearia a existência - a existência de quê? a existência do mundo. Com reverência eu temia a existência do mundo para mim.

E nasci para escrever. A palavra é o meu domínio sobre o mundo.

However what Joana has inside her is something stronger than the love that people give and what she has inside her demands more than the love that people receive.

from any struggle or rest I will rise up as strong and beautiful as a young horse.

Quanto mais precisarmos, mais Deus existe. Quanto mais pudermos, mais Deus teremos.

Até então eu nunca fora dona de meus poderes - poderes que eu não entendia nem queria entender, mas a vida em mim os havia retido para que um dia enfim desabrochasse essa matéria desconhecida e feliz e inconsciente que era finalmente: eu! eu, o que quer que seja.

La palabra es mi dominio sobre el mundo

This is not a lament, it's the cry of a bird of prey.

Este libro requirió una libertad tan grande que tuve miedo de darla. Está por encima de mí. Intenté escribirlo humildemente. Yo soy más fuerte que yo. C. L.

Because a world fully alive has the power of a Hell.

That power he had to deplete things before getting them, that stark premonition he had of "afterward" ...Before taking the first step toward action, he had already tasted the saturation and sorrow that follow victories...

Este é um livro fresco – recém-saído do nada. Escrevo para nada e para ninguém. Inspiração não é loucura. É Deus. A impessoalidade é uma condição. A loucura é a tentação de ser totalmente o poder. Pois também eu solto as minhas amarras: mato o que me perturba. Escrevo para me livrar da carga difícil de uma pessoa ser ela mesma.

É QUE um mundo todo vivo tem a força de um Inferno.

The university has become the multiversity and the nature of the presidency has followed this change…. The president of the multiversity is leader, educator, wielder of power, pump; he is also officeholder, caretaker, inheritor, consensus seeker, persuader, bottleneck. But he is mostly a mediator.

We all carry the question in the deepest part of our being. We turn on the lights, power up our brains, and fill every crack and crevice with illumination and distraction. But in what shadows remain, there is still that question, waiting for us. Death is waiting for us. Paradoxically, the less space we allot to it, the larger it grows. Perhaps that is why so many of us fear the dark.

When the ancient goddesses—Ishtar, Astarte, Inanna, Isis, Diana, Athena…and, yes, Mary—were described as virgins, it didn't mean that they had never been touched, had never felt desire, or had never experienced sexual union. It meant that no man could own them or defile them. They were not pure or chaste, but green and powerful, these virgins—able to resurrect the land and remake the world with the coming of every spring.

The end is just another beginning when a Mother is in charge of the world.