Quotes About Power

What an incredible drug fear is.

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.

Fear is stronger than arms.

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.

A lot of people don't understand how a lot of money is being made. There's a combination of fear related to that, envy, distrust that gets filtered into that.

All Egyptians, not only the protestors, have broken through the fear barrier, therefore I expect only one outcome - protests will continue until Mubarak steps down from power.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

It's just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.

Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.

Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.

Fear first made gods in the world.

The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.

People have power and it is very important to respect that. Everybody's had thousands of lifetimes, and who knows what anyone has learned in a lifetime ... respect not fear.

Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.

This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.