Quotes About Power

There is no equality without coercion.

Equality is never given, it is taken.

And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over.

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.

The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches.

Dominating others is not equality.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.

... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul's power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.