Quotes About Power

Again and again, we see how cultures and religions frame women's sexuality as both powerful and dangerous, and as something that must be kept under control.

That's silly, the people in prison are thieves and murderers.' 'So are the ones in the castle. How else do you get to own a castle?

The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.

A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin...

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.

Acknowledgment of error is not error. A person who sincerely tells the spirit that he did something wrong cannot be punished anymore. The wrong itself is its own punishment. Power

As humans, we are fascinated by supernatural, spiritual power. Every moment you display this kind of power to the world, that power isolates you. You become displaced by the power you display because that power is also displaced through you. For

Anyone who worships his own creation, something of his own making, is someone in a state of confusion. Power

It would be years before I understood that tenderness is the weapon used by the torturer to win over his victim.

Expression triumphant and fierce, arms lifted to the night sky as if it were hers to rule, who was this stunning creature?

She tried to slip her hand inside his pants. Feeling as if he'd just slammed into wall and had some sense knocked back into his head, Urich gripped her wrist, frantic to make her stop before she unleashed more than his gender.

I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

Books and knowledge don't make for a safe world. Just the opposite. Books and knowledge are facets of the truth and the truth can be very dangerous.