Quotes About Power

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

Power factions fight back with lies.

I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

I love and adore men. I think their energy is so sexy, and fabulous, and active. But the imbalance in the male and female power is deadly. It is literally taking us to extinction.

Power is neither good nor evil.

She leaned into my shoulder. "Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have power." I pushed her hair behind her ear. "Maybe you just have to fall for one.

No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.

She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?

Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman.

Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff?

If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control

Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left.

I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not the writer or the director.

I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they're a gateway to the actual thing. They're like an easy entrance.

One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.