Quotes About Power

The world is full of hatred because it refuses to be poor. It wants to conquer fear with power. But you will conquer in another way, the unknown way. First, perhaps, you will forget. You will not see. You will not understand. Later you may see, and then you will know that the false self must die in order for the true self to be born.

In those days the world had its evil masters, Nero, Tiberius, and Domitian. But even amidst the collapse of civilization, the world was crawling out of darkness. We are sliding back into it, and that is the difference. Our autocrats are not vicious tyrants. They are the architects of worldpower; and they manipulate all the resources of modern psychology to control the soul of man and make him an instrument of their purpose.

The serpent hated the light and knew he had no power to hurt it, except through its creatures.

That's the trouble, isn't it? He's a good man, but he's got no courage. Hardly anybody has courage anymore. That's what's so disheartening. No one wants to stop these guys who are going for power. No one can bear to be criticized. They're all paralyzed.

Sex is class warfare. You must understand your weapon if you wish to emerge the victor from the struggle.

Words have power", he said intensely. "They have a life of their own. They shift the balance of the world.

He recognized another factor that should not be underestimated: The serpent mesmerizes. Whenever it cannot seduce, it attempts to overwhelm. It is like a cobra projecting an image of its power in order to paralyze its victim with fear, disabling its defenses without a struggle, before devouring it. In the victim's eyes the threat grows so large that it becomes everything and appears to be irresistible. So too Satan desires that we think him omnipotent and omniscient.

The dragon. Just when you think he's getting smaller and smaller, no bigger than a lapdog, he opens his little mouth and swallows the whole world in one gulp.

word once spoken cannot be taken back", she went on with quiet intensity. "It goes out into the world. It changes the world. You must take greater care with your words.

He knew that God very often did his deepest work in the soul without any sensible manifestations. He was always at work—always—and often most powerfully in those times when his children felt abandoned, alone with impossible responsibilities or afflictions. Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.

If I were to make your voice shake the foundations of the earth like thunder, would they make themselves deafer in order not to hear?

A good point, my son. But it underlines the fact that those who do not live in the power of the Holy Spirit are most vulnerable. Even believers can reduce the Faith to a philosophical system. They can retain the exterior forms of religion and lose its heart.

Surely you must know that the most powerful graces cannot be felt in the senses or the affections.

Each tool reshapes the one who is apparently the master of the tool. I ask myself this: At what point does the tool, the servant, become the real master?

Decision making becomes more political - less about authority and more about influence. That isn't good or bad; it's simply inevitable.

So it shouldn't come as a complete surprise that the decision-making game becomes that much more bruising and politically charged the higher up you go. It's critical, then, for you to become more effective at building and sustaining alliances and for you to become expert in corporate diplomacy.

Decision making becomes more political—less about authority, and more about influence.

If we are honest, we must admit that our employers have power over us. Some of them may be nice and some of them may be nasty, but none of them will spend money just because it would be good for us. They know that as individuals we are less powerful than they. We have only our ability to work to sell, but they have the jobs.

A NEW AGE OF DRAGONS IS ABOUT TO BEGIN. THE POWERFUL CREATURES WILL RETURN TO RULE THE WORLD ONCE MORE, BUT THIS TIME WILL BE DIFFERENT. THIS TIME, THEY WILL HAVE ALLIES. WHO WILL HELP THEM? AROUND THE WORLD, SOME YOUNG HUMANS ARE MAKING A STRANGE DISCOVERY. THEY ARE LEARNING THAT THEY WERE BORN WITH DRAGON BLOOD — BLOOD THAT GIVES THEM AMAZING POWERS.

When you look outside yourself for affirmation, you give extraordinary power to the affirmer. When people have extraordinary power, they tend to abuse it.

So joy and sadness are simply the passage to a greater or lesser power of acting, a greater or lesser ability to bring about certain effects.

Kids … when someone's making decisions for you, you can bet that they've also decided to take what's yours.

In extraordinary circumstances and against the odds, Churchill became Prime Minister instead of Halifax, and that one decision changed the course of history.

JFK's great virtue, and the essential difference between him and George W. Bush, was that he had an instinctive appreciation for the chaotic forces of history.