Quotes About Power

Killing, and being prepared to send one's own followers to their deaths is an index of seriousness in bargaining.

Political bargaining and political entrepreneurship can be seen naked, stripped of the flattering wardrobe of democracy, rule of law and state building.

Most members of the political elites of north-east Africa have come to resemble gangsters rather than civic political leaders.

As a leader, you don't need to be loved, though it is useful, on occasion, to be feared. But, most of all, you need to be respected.

The way to win battles, wars and games is by attacking and overrunning the opposing side.

The one thing I could never allow was loss of control, because control was my only saviour.

Be careful, okay, when you go there. Talia was really scared of this Malvolia chick. She could be dangerous." "What's she going to have—an assault weapon?" "Worse," I say. "She's got magical powers.

Even in my time, we knew that men were not in charge. Oh, they might bluster as if they were. But when it came down to it, we women bore much of the influence. Often, my father would make some grand pronouncement in the evening. And the next morning, he had changed his mind. After a while, I realized that it was my mother who had changed it, quietly, in the night.

Control is part of faking it

She understood it wasn't an actual fear of flying so much as a fear of being without control, which was often the crux of most fears. If you had control over a situation, there was nothing to fear.

Most abhor Wallowing with the Weak yet fear Strutting with the Strong

Nothing lives forever even the president

Bullies use various power tactics, such as spreading malicious gossip, excessive criticism, withholding resources or information, excluding a targeted person from the group, and other devious behaviors intended to undermine the confidence and performance of others. Bullies often take aggressive action against individuals in an effort to control and have power over them.

many bullies lack the self-awareness and insight to see how their power plays are destructive, not only to themselves but to others around them.

'I Am Number Four' is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior.

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

Part of the power of home cooking is that everything tastes better when someone else makes it for you.

Better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait till it begins to abolish itself from below.

will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.[130] (George Orwell, 1984)

Peter's feeling at the present time seems to have been much the same: "If Thou be the Son of God, why shouldst Thou suffer an ignominious, violent death? Thou hast power to save Thyself from such a fate; surely Thou wilt not hesitate to use it!" The attached disciple, in fact, was an unconscious instrument employed by Satan to subject Jesus to a second temptation, analogous to the earlier one in the desert of Judea.

Confident in the power of truth, He chose the base things of the world in preference to things held in esteem, assured that they would conquer at the last.

Who is sufficient for these things? Jesus knew the insufficiency of His instruments. Therefore, having invested them with official authority, He proceeded to speak of an investment with another kind of power, without which the official must needs be utterly ineffectual. "And, behold," He said, "I send the promise of my Father upon you; but tarry ye at Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.

When this disciple was brought by his brother Andrew into the presence of his future Master, Jesus, we are told, "beheld him and said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas"--Cephas meaning in Syriac, as the evangelist explains, the same which Petros signifies in Greek. The penetrating glance of Christ discerned in this disciple latent capacities of faith and devotion, the rudiments of ultimate strength and power.