Quotes About Power

Burn, or speak your mind. For the oak to untruss its passion it must explode as fire or leaves.

Los perversos narcisistas son los que más miedo les tienen a los demás. Para ellos, todas las personas a las que no consiguen seducir o someter son potencialmente peligrosas.

When people try to evade problems you first have to ask if it is not just laziness. Jung once said, "Laziness is the greatest passion of mankind, even greater than power or sex or anything." (p. 77)

Learner/Judger Questions We all ask both kinds of questions, and we have the power to choose which ones to ask in any moment.

Naming is an exercise of power. Renaming involves a transfer of power. Unnaming is a stripping of power from the unnamed and often an abuse of power on the part of those who presume to reduce names to numbers, for instance. It takes courage to name what is being deliberately and defensively obscured. Plain language is not always welcome.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her; you don't even have to beat her. You can just marry her. You don't even have to do that. You can just let her work in your office for thirty-five dollars a week.

Male territorial insanity yields only to another male. What a difference the possession of a penis makes!

All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.

Men: they are what they are and women have to accept that and try to shift around them. Especially men with power. Money. The upper hand. The raised hand. Momma`s philosophy. Here`s to you, Momma. She raised the empty cup. What`s the use of fighting them. What`s the use. To struggle, to live in anger takes everything out of you, drains you, makes people hate you and what`s the use? You get nothing you want, all you get is tired.

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

There is no danger greater for the State than that of self-styled intellectuals. You would have been better off remaining illiterate. - King Hassan II of Morocco, quoted in the Preface

Then she saw him in outline, standing in the doorway, his powerful figure filling the open space.

The weak ones are there to justify the strong.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Which is colder, the hand or the gun?

Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way.

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear.

Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

What you seem to forget is that I'm not one of the embodiments of evil. I'm one of the embodiments of fear. That means I know what makes evil quake in the light of the sun.

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

The higher one sits, the greater the fear of fall.