Quotes About Power

He let his hand drop to the red jewel on his belt, which he had won from Torgor the Minotaur. Sepron!

Aduro himself had told them so. "Tom." Elenna shook his shoulder gently. "We have to go. Another evil Beast is waiting for us." "I know." Energy flooded through Tom as he pledged

If Helen had the face that launched a thousand ships, Kelly would have made those guys invent aircraft carriers.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Life was not just a patchy green scruff holding a tenuous position between rock and air; instead, it was a planetary power as important as volcanoes and tides. It was an active force shaping the complex multibillion-year history of the world.

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

That's the nature of Power today: Change, or be changed. Learn to Thrive in a networked world, or fall.

grace has the power to change our lives.

Grace has power. When you give kindness, compassion, goodness, and love to someone who does not deserve it, that graceful act has the power to change hearts, heal broken

he'd use both hands to try to pry my thumb

The sum total of my current assets is: The knowledge that the psychotic violence of making black people black so that white people can be white runs through me as surely as it does through the bodies of all the jailers and the jailed.

Those who are conquered," wrote the philosopher Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth century, "always want to imitate the conqueror in his main characteristics—in his clothing, his crafts, and in all his distinctive traits and customs.

And so the bulk of chicotte blows were inflicted by Africans on the bodies of other Africans. This, for the conquerors, served a further purpose. It created a class of foremen from among the conquered, like the kapos in the Nazi concentration camps and the predurki, or trusties, in the Soviet gulag. Just as terrorizing people is part of conquest, so is forcing someone else to administer the terror

One British missionary was asked repeatedly by Africans, "Has the Savior you tell us of any power to save us from the rubber trouble?

Just as terrorizing people is part of conquest, so is forcing someone else to administer the terror.*

Real stories like this, human ones, could get you sent to prison, and it didn't matter what they were about. It didn't matter if the story was about an old woman or a squid attack—if it diverted emotion from the Dear Leader, it was dangerous.

I find a tattered copy of 1984. I open the book and read a little. Of course it is fiction, but the author gets a few things right—the control, the scrutiny, the feeling that nothing can be spontaneous, that the slightest move carries consequences for your future. It evokes a feeling I haven't experienced in a long time, a sense that, even though you have a great job and house, there is no safe place to turn. The

Stories are factual...If a man and his story are in conflict it is the man who must change.....In America it is the man who matters not the story.

Hidden inside the Junma's rigging and booms was a strong

in communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

Where we are from," he said, "stories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.

I know this," the Second Mate said. "A sexy girl thinks she can do anything.

When the dogs returned, the Senator gave them treats from his pocket, and Jun Do understood that in communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes

In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her.