Quotes About Power

I mean some can predict the future because they create it," said Rosenblatt. "Oh, not the good things. We can't make someone love us, or even like us. But we can make someone hate us. We can't guarantee we'll be hired for a job, but we can make sure we're fired." He put down his apple cider and stared at Gamache. "We can't be sure we'll win a war, but we can lose one.

How intimating became intimidating. It was subtle, and all the more powerful for it.

With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power." The words

Terrible things were discussed by confident people in public places.

People were capable of believing almost anything. And hope was even more sweeping and powerful.

And in the silence Leduc realized what Gamache exuded. It wasn't force. It was power.

believing something was even more powerful than knowing it.

I know there is an unseen power at work of which we have little comprehension, but I don't really feel I can consult with Jesus about my basoomas.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

How long would it be before the elements toppled these small structures as they had already toppled the broch and the castle? Would future archaeologists dig here, or had records grown so precise every aspect of the recent past would be charted and ready for those who wanted to know? Maybe, soon enough, there would be no one left, no world to chronicle and argue over. All things must end, why not this too? The thought almost had the power to cheer him.

There's no tyrant like a brain.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to destroy and kill.

Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.

If I could have a superpower, it'd be the ability to make all my enemies change their minds and see things MY way.

If each man were to lay down his weapon, and say, With a click of his heels, "I wish you Good-day," Now what, may I ask, could the Emperor do? A king and his minions are really so few.

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

What a marvel bureaucracy is, which can smother Such quite elementary feelings, and tag A man with a number, and set him to wag His legs and his arms at the word of command Or the blow of a whistle! He's certainly damned, Fit only for mince-meat, if a little gold lace And an upturned moustache can set him to face Bullets, and bayonets, and death, and diseases, Because some one he calls his Emperor, pleases.

Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.

Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes.

God, give us Peace! not such as lulls to sleep, But sword on thigh and brow with purpose knit!

Jealous, the old gods Shut it in shadow, Wisely they ward it, Egg of the serpent, Bane to them all.

Here shall a realm rise Mighty in manhood; Justice and Mercy Here set a stronghold Safe without spear.

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action. Yes, recognition is a powerful motivator—to those who receive it as well as those who observe it.