Quotes About Power

To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.

The strength of America is not in Washington.

See, once a person see what you will do if they don't, they let you keep on doin it! All of it! If you let them!

Using women's fear of male violence as a means of regulating female behavior is one of patriarchy's most powerful weapons.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Dictatorship is power based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws.

a funeral dirge will be sung either over the Soviet Republic

J. Edgar Hoover

Party leaders stay in fancy hotels or take vacations, while rank-and-file members are hounded to donate the last dollar

In many ways, home is an image for the power of stories. With both, we need to live in them if they are to take hold, and we need to stand back from them if we are to understand their power

We sat down in front of the earth's great philosopher-the Fire.

Wars came early to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze.

Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Music . . . . A magic beyond all we do here!

You're a wizard, Harry.

Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.