Quotes About Power

Handling power is very much like handling explosives, you have to have a great deal of respect for it and most people don't.

What man would have courage enough to believe he could win you? Bosque laughed. "You exude power. Men are small creatures, easily cowed by those who challenge their sense of self-importance.

As he passed Alistair to depart the library, Bosque said, "I'm pleased you didn't limit your vision. Ambition is the fertile soil in which true power can be cultivated.

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.

God has the Power to make it happen. You have the Authority to make it happen. So stop complaining, get up, & manifest your destiny.

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

Power is the gem of necessity. Without observing power, identity remains undiscovered.

Deceit is a tool of statecraft, " Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, " Paul said.

Van Eck raised a brow. "How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.

For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely

There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.

Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she was born to it. But true rulers are not born. We are made.

I have spent my entire life thinking of the Inquisitors as things, soulless creatures. But they are just men. Men can be swayed, and I have the power to do it.

A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.

If I have not been both soothed by love and on the opposite extreme left devastated by it, I will never understand its power nor respect its majesty.

You have to realize that modern power, is nothing but a concept in the mind of the one who's under the power. And once you realize this, you realize that authority is indeed an illusion.

It was Tigerstar's ambition that destroyed him. If he had been willing to wait for power to come to him, he would've been the greatest leader in the forest.

Most people throw away their personal power... If you want to know where, look at who and what you hate, blame, resent, and envy.

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.

He is an idiot, " I said. "One who thinks he's a genius/ They're the most dangerous kind.""No, the most dangerous kind are the ones with power, " he said.

Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.

I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works. Nothing else lasts long enough.

Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.