Quotes About Power

When you say a word—negative or positive—you release powerful forces. Every word you say has power. There is no such thing as a powerless word. —Marianne Williamson

I always suspected that programmers became programmers because they got to play God with the little universe boxes on their desks.

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

The word 'citizen' confers rights, rights that are invisible, that really appear only when they are denied... You live in a racial state that formally denies difference, but in practice avows it, through the barrel of a gun or the conferring of papers.

Racism is not merely about individual chauvinism, prejudice, or bigotry. Ruth Glimore reminds us that it is about the ways different groups are 'vulnerable to premature death,' whether at the hands of the state or structures that kill.

Institutional neglect of racism and injustice is the exercise of power, the kind of power that refuses to notice and refuses to speak.

Culture, like food, is necessary to sustain us. It molds us and shapes our relations to each other. An inequitable culture is one in which people do not have the same power to create, access, or circulate their practices, works, ideas and stories. It is one in which people cannot represent themselves equally. To say that American culture in inequitable is to say that it moves us away from seeing each other in our full humanity. It is to say that the culture does not paint a more just society.

Man fights with his mind. His hands and his weapons are simply extensions of his will, and one of the fallacies of our era is the notion that equipment is the equivalent of force.

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

Size matters not. Inertia, however, is a pain in the butt." -Mander Zuma

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

If there was something about Jones's demands on his followers that they didn't understand, it shouldn't be questioned—God didn't want them doing that, either. To challenge Jim Jones was to challenge the Lord, and God would respond accordingly.

Cara's stomach knotted with anger, and a strange sort of hunger. Let's see who the fittest is now, Dad.

You know who I am? Sure, Pony typed. You're the Queen of the Universe. Flattering, April responded. Wanna fill me in on you? They call me Pony. You're not bad... What do you want to know? … Who's the bad guy? You? Or me?

On that night he made clear to his secret society that the fundamental conflict of his life was founded on precisely that belief: the white establishment would always keep the common black man down in order to cover their own asses.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. — Rudyard

Never underestimate your power to change yourself. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I may not be strong, but I am fierce

Ever wonder why Christians are often lethargic in worship? Why our allegiance is weak and our obedience sporadic? It's because we know little of God's power working through the church. Imagine how our faith and worship would explode if we witnessed more of God's life-changing work in the lives of His people. Again, the spiritual principle here is "the greater the awe, the greater the worship.