Quotes About Power

You are responsible to your political paymasters, and their eternal quest for the status quo.

The flux tube's rain of energy penetrates the tormented lower atmosphere. It is embraced by the Ly-cilph. Their minds consume the power, using it to metamorphose once again. The nodes brought them sentience, the supergiant's surplus energy brings them transcendence. They leave the chrysalis of the flesh behind, shooting up the stream of particles at lightspeed, spacefree and eternal.

He was readying his energistic powers to deal with her bodyguards, who had now caught her up, when she did her level best to ram his testicles into his eye sockets via his intestinal tract.

Dac? R?zboiul Starflyer îl înv??ase ceva era c? evenimentele îi conduc pe oameni, nu invers.

From small foundations of hope, empires can be built.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

Leaders who use coercion are interested in their own goals and seldom are interested in the wants and needs of followers. Using coercion runs counter to working with followers to achieve a common goal.

coercive leaders are Adolf Hitler in Germany, the Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, Jim Jones in Guyana, and North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il, each of whom has used power and restraint to force followers to engage in extreme behaviors.

barrel-chested general was like the proverbial boxer with an iron right punch and a granite jaw.

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

Sheer stupidity — that much underrated force in history.

One did not have to be a Jesuit to recognize that to control the schools was to control the future.

Much as they feared democracy, they determined to shape it. Their motto became "Let us educate our new masters".

Only a people trained to accept being ruled by a violent power structure can really question someone's right and need to forcefully defend herself against oppression.

For revolutionary activists, however, victory comes from building power and out-strategizing the state. Such a path requires constant assessment and self-criticism.

In the immensity of earth, sky and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech – and nothing would happen. Nothing could happen.

Or on the whim of a deity. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.

Non-stories may provide information, but stories have a unique power to move people's hearts, minds, feet, and wallets in the story teller's intended direction.

If your audience has a negative story about you or your product or business, you'd better confront it. As famed author Salman Rushdie once said, "Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts." Once you lose control of your own story, you'll need double the muscle to get that power back.

Prayer is not itself powerful; it is not magic. But its power is unlimited in that the child of God calls on a Father of unlimited goodness and ability.

When we speak, we speak for will!

Though they are now largely silent, the voices from the seventeenth century still speak to us from the innumerable texts and images we are fortunate to possess. They offer a warning of the dangers of entrusting power to those who feel summoned by God to war, or feel that their sense of justice and order is the only one valid.

Aachen had possessed heavy guns since 1345 and most cities had significant arsenals by 1400, well ahead of those owned by princes.