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Quotes About Power

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.
~ Dennis Kucinich
I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The gunshot holds no fear!
~ Dakota Fanning
Fearlessness can be its own form of power.
~ Glenn Greenwald
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
~ Edward Abbey
there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.
~ Charles A. Reich
While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.
~ Frank Rich
Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
~ Pierre Corneille
I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
~ Maria Monk
It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.
~ William Shakespeare
...find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.
~ Joyce Meyer
Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.
~ William Shakespeare
There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.
~ William Shakespeare
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
~ Seneca the Younger
All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
They terrify lest they should fear.
~ Tacitus
Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.
~ William Shakespeare
Behind every bad law, a deep fear.
~ Sarah Vowell
The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.
~ Unknown
Fear is trusting in your own power.
~ Marianne Williamson
Those who would rule with an iron fist always fear the free expression of opinions by those they would suppress.
~ Neal Boortz
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
~ Anna Quindlen