Quotes About Power

Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. This is no surprise, given that for most of its written history, leadership has been defined in terms of its control functions.

There are no descriptions, it is almost needless to say, of Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, or for that matter, Jefferson Davis playing with kittens.

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

We have engrossed to ourselves, in a time when other powerful nations were paralysed by barbarism or internal war, an altogether disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world. We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less reasonable to others than to us.

Anyone who falls into your hands falls to your sword!

Nationalist movements often overlapped with economic and class issues: Rumanian and Ruthenian peasants, for example, challenged their Hungarian and Polish landlords.

Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you must do my work. Don't listen to anyone but me. You are to be my command laid on my enemy. you'll make a hole in him through which he'll drip away until he runs dry. As he drips out darkness, we'll smile together, me inside, you outside. We'll crush him between our smiles.

Non posso fingere di non sapere quanto la volontà di un ottimo chirurgo sia ininfluente rispetto al compiersi di un destino. Le braccia di un uomo sono ferme alla terra, figlia mia, Dio, se c'è, è alle nostre spalle.

Mar ni ženska zemlja, luna, hiša? In ni moškega, tudi najve?je barabe, najve?jega ženomrzca in samca, ki ni vsaj enkrat v življenju za?util želje, da bi pokleknil pred žensko. Za ves trud, ki ga opravlja v veliki mreži življenja.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

more powerful than all the armies in the world is an idea whose time is come'.

If you lead a country like Britain… you have to have a touch of iron about you.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.