Quotes About Power

This lady is strong medicine, for external use only.

This woman could call upon the earth and the heavens to do her bidding. But she gave up her power to be human. Write this into your record, Judge—this Ondine was the most human human being that ever lived. She was human by choice.

And I suppose this is you speaking truth to power. The principle your whole life is organized around." Naomi started. There was loathing in the way it was said. She had never suspected. She shook her head sadly. "No, I don't think I can do that anymore. As you pointed out to me, I'm the power. This is me speaking power to truth.

We knew a flood was inconvenient and destructive. At the same time we couldn't help but feel a peculiar sort of delight that something beyond us was large enough to destroy the inexorability of our routines.

She doesn't scream, but she groans and the sounds she makes are beyond the pain and work of labor, beyond human—or even animal—life. They are the sounds that move the earth, the sounds that give voice to the deep, violent fissures in the bark of the redwoods. They are the sounds of splitting cells, of bonding atoms, the sounds of the waxing moon and the forming stars.

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Our need for social and personal change and power is often co-opted and trivialized into an adolescent and self-centered kind of rebellion.

It's always a mere handful of men who account for the masses, and nothing great, alas, has ever emerged from peace, neither a nation- as Amar has just pointed out- nor a great work. Peace has always been the reign of mediocrities, and pacifism the bleating of a herd of sheep which allow themselves to be led to the slaughter-house with defending themselves.

But when did you see her, talk to me? When did you see her go into the cave? Why did you threaten to strike a spirit? You still don't understand, do you? You acknowledged her, Broud, she has beaten you. You did everything you could to her, you even cursed her. She's dead, and still she won. She was a woman, and she had more courage than you, Broud, more determination, more self-control. She was more man than you are. Ayla should have been the son of my mate.

Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

You have named him, not I.

You are Emperor, my lord, and yet you weep?

Tyranny always starts auspiciously.

Twas easier to disarm the god of strength Than this Hippolytus, for Hercules Yielded so often to the eyes of beauty, As to make triumph cheap. ? Jean Racine, Phèdre

He knew now that corruption is inherent in power, and, even worse, stupidity!

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Nada es tan poderoso como una idea cuyo momento ha llegado. VÍCTOR HUGO

Para las mujeres Atenea (como señalaba el exsecretario de estado Henry Kisinger) "el poder es el mejor afrodisíaco".

Have you ever noticed a certain type of man who always wants to go along with his wife to pick out her clothes? I've always thought that's because he wants to wear them himself. Truman Capote on Warhol

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