Quotes About Power

Tyranny is always and everywhere the same, while freedom is always various. The well and truly enslaved are dependable; we know what they will say and think and do. The free are quirky. Tyrannies may be overt and violent or covert and insidious, but they all require the same thing, a subject population in which the power of the word is dulled and, thus, the power of thought occluded and the power of deed brought low.

Software architects have to take responsibility for their decisions as they have much more influential power in software projects than most people in organizations.

The President can bomb anybody he likes.

Whoever imagined that ours was a government of laws and not men

Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

Magnetism is not like in the superhero movies. I couldn't pull a car toward myself, because a car weighs more than I do. I just ended up pulling myself to the car.

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.

The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but its echo endures much longer.

And if our lives are but a single flash in the dark hollow of eternity, then if, but for the briefest of moments, we shine - then how brilliantly our light has burned. And as starlight knows no boundary of space or time, so too, our illumination will shine forth throughout all eternity, for darkness has no power to quell such light. And this is a lesson we must all learn and take to heart - that all light is eternal and all love is light. And it must forever be so.

Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.

It is that to which we cling that drags us to the bottom of the abyss. There is real power at having nothing to lose.

They are like pythons in the jungle. The smallest child can crush a python egg. But let the snake hatch and grow and the python with squeeze and devour the child.

Humility is the power to admit that you may be wrong. Admitting to false beliefs is not weakness, it is the first step on the path to truth. And make no mistake, there is no such thing as individual truth, only individual perception. Perception is subjective, but truth isn't.

Wars aren't won with guns; they're won with checkbooks.

Sometimes the most profound experiences of our lives start with an act so simple and careless that we hardly think about it - like tossing a small stone that causes a massive avalanche.

Oftentimes it's the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.

L'électricité est réellement le sang de la civilisation.

I don't get that, I mean, what's power? Let's say he suddenly becomes king of the world. What is he going to do with it that he can't do now? Is his food going to taste better? Is the weather going to be nicer? Will love feel better? I just don't understand that mentality.

There is nothing as weak as water, but when it attacks and is persistent, nothing can withstand it. -Lao Tse

Consider your own deepest fears-real or imagined. Actually all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.

One cannot understand the power of grace until one has needed it. Or given it.

In here you're no one, cheerleader. You remember that. You can't even walk unless I say so. If they let me, I could drain you like a bathtub and watch you die. So how about a cheer for me? Because in here, I'm the star quarterback. -Nichelle

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage