Quotes About Power

I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.

I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Interdependence and emptiness show us that there are no fixed starting points. Many people have the idea that they lack what they need in order to start working toward their dreams. They feel they do not have enough power, or they do not have enough money. But they should know that any point is the right starting point. This is the perspective that emptiness opens up. We can start from zero. (17th Karmapa)

Vacuum is all potent because all containing. In vacuum alone motion becomes possible. One who could make of himself a vacuum into which others might freely enter would become master of all situations. The whole can always dominate the part.

What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead.

The white man knows many things," the other whispered back, "but he doesn't know how to tell a good lie.

This is what power really is: the privilege of ignoring anything you might find distasteful.

A jesieni? 2016, (.......), w Ukrainie dobiega? ko?ca trzeci rok wojny z Rosj?, we Francji kremlowscy kandydaci przymierzali si? do fotela prezydenckiego (jak mawia? Borys Bierezowski o nowych zasadach polityki zagranicznej Federacji Rosyjskiej ,,po co kupowa? fabryk?, skoro mo?na kupi? dyrektora?").......

Wealth was the power to set things and people in motion; and in America, therefore, wealth came to be frankly regarded as the breath of God, the divine spirit immanent in man. God was the supreme Boss, the universal Employer.

Those who achieved power were satisfied so long as they could merely retain it, and advertise it uncritically in the conventionally self-assertive manners.

Aunque las potencias nos destruyan —dijo—, ¿quiénes somos para condenarlas? Sería lo mismo que una palabra juzgara al hombre que la ha pronunciado.

Shatov stared at me and said, 'Old boy, you don't understand. A member of the Politburo who can speak for forty minutes without notes — he must be a genius!

Sally is a bully of the worst sort, for she never lays a hand on Bill, never gives her bullying a properly physical manifestation. She beats him with words and body language and selectively brutal silences.

If you don't answer my questions, I'll hurt you. I am authorized.

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Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero! ¡Qué poco conocían del significado de "circo y pan para la gente"!ç

Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero! ¡Qué poco conocían del significado de "circo y pan para la gente"!

Frequently, ironic situations resulted. One blocova, formerly maid-of-all-work, selected her erstwhile mistress as her personal servant. The latter brushed the shoes and mended the tatters of her ex-maid.

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think?

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.