Quotes About Power

He knew, as a man used to fear, the great danger of letting it take control. It distorted reality. Consumed reality. Fear created its own reality.

truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Young Langlois had sat down and gathered that power to him. The power that came from having information, knowledge, thoughts, and a calm place to collect them.

Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man.

the one-eyed man is king,

And I would never, ever mock the power of love. But it can also distort. Slip over into desperation and delusion.

A populist feeding anger and fear is more likely to get elected.

With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power.

We see it when bullies are in charge.

The lion, while nominally in charge, had actually been taken in by the fox.

But then, dynamism and kindness often didn't go together, though when they did they were unstoppable.

Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture a common purpose or enemy. And the cornerstone of a really great movement? A powerful symbol. Take away or tarnish that and everything starts to crumble, everything's questioned.

You should. It's about what happens when gullibility and fear meet greed and power.

Like whites in South Africa or the Southern states who knew that things had changed, who even accepted the changes, but who couldn't quite shake the certainty deeply, diplomatically, hidden, that they should still be in charge.

With patience comes power.

It would have blown the whole grid.

Safe, thought Gamache. How primal that was, how powerful. What would people do to preserve a safe harbor? They'd do what they'd done for centuries. What the French had done to save Québec, what the English had done to take it. What countries do to protect their borders, what individuals do to protect their homes. They kill. To feel safe. It almost never worked.

You obviously know that art has power," he said. "It can be freeing, but it can also be a weapon, especially when combined with something equally powerful, like war. Art's been used to inspire all sorts of things. Public statues of brave soldiers. Paintings of heroic sacrifice. But it's also been used to put the fear of God into enemies.

put it there. He makes us better men and better monks. He believes in God and he believes in the power of love and forgiveness. And not just a faith of convenience.

Knowledge wasn't always power. Sometimes it was crippling.

lines from The Tempest to unnerve

The population had a right to expect that people with a gun and a badge would also have self-control.

Imagine a world where you could do anything. Anything. And get away with it,' said Myrna, warming to the topic again. 'What power. Who here wouldn't be corrupted?

She was punished for many things, including being happy. So I wanted to capture that. The power of it. Happiness as an act of defiance. A revolutionary act.