Quotes About Power

Visibility makes possible, but it also disciplines: disciplines gender, disciplines genre.)

The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.

We have not yet heard enough, if anything, about the female gaze. About the scorch of it.

I insisted that words did more than nominate.

tired of hearing that the most resistance one could muster in a Foucauldian universe was to work the trap one is inevitably in.

The chubby white suburban teenagers impersonating cops were precisely the kind of men to whom we would have preferred not to unload this story.

Two women in a room. One seated, one standing

She then leans over and thrusts the edge of the letter into the sconce burning on the wall of the stairwell. For a second or two, it seems the flame cannot believe its luck, refusing to consume the page. Then it comes to its senses, asserting its grasp, turning the edges of the paper black, shrivelling and devouring them.

there are the parents, then the sons, then the daughter, then the pigs in the pig-pen and the hens in the henhouse, then the apprentice and then, right at the bottom, the serving maids. Agnes believes her position, as new daughter-in-law, to be ambiguous, somewhere between apprentice and hen. Agnes

How can they not have invited him to this meeting? He used to have influence – he used to rule over them all. He used to be someone.

To ignore it is to drain it of its power.

a large and ever-expanding range at the bullies' disposal.

The words fly out of her mouth, like hornets, words she didn't even know she knew, words that dart and crackle and maim, words that twist and mangle her tongue.

There is, she has found, great power to be had in silence.

Then, almost as an afterthought, she turned and locked the bathroom door. If he thought he was going to seduce her, make her stupid enough to believe his lies by getting her into bed, he'd better think again. She stepped into the water. Besides, women didn't lose brain cells at the thought of sex. Only men did.

That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.

Money just draws flies.

The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

We effect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our universe.

A loving heart finds joy in every moment. Nothing can resist its power for growth.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.