The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

Mtu akikutukana mwambie asante. Akikupiga mwambie asante. Akiendelea kukupiga, pigana.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

… knowing what not to know was itself indispensable knowledge.

If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from...

A leader without a clear vision and plans only abuses his power because visions, dreams and plans are the fulcrum along which the loads of success will spine by your own efforts. And where power...

I can”, you spark your inner power to make it happen. You can!

Your ability is your power. Others’ opinions can make it sour.

He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself.

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because...

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

To save the environment—and my childhood memories, I merged a gas station pump with a jukebox. Look, my car now runs on 80s music!

The worship of power is an old religion.

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

I should invent a stationary bike/electrical generator/phonograph player, so that when the grid goes down I will have motivation to exercise for my nightly entertainment.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

We can potentially get the computational power of 100 workstations on the size of a grain of sand. We’ll do it in steps; I’m hopeful that we can do it in about a decade.

the location of the server does not seem to give that much power.

But… all I said was that I was scared.” After what you got to experience? That’s smart, kid,” I said. “I’m scared, too. Every time something like this happens, it scares me. But being strong...

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

The power of evil was nothing more than a tangible thing, something that given the strength of will, could be broken as easily as glass.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

Feeling the power and the explosiveness is going to take time.

When someone cannot do without you, don’t think he/she is weak. When he/she loves you, don’t take that for granted.Experience has thought me that we all have the power to fall out of love at...

RebukeObstinate regressionbringing untold pathsof deep dark forebodingdepression…

Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room is a privileged space dedicated to memory. Within that space, survivors gain the...

God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen.

This isn’t the work of our people, Delilah. It’s a corruption of power. The gods are neutral, good and evil manifests in the deeds of mortals.”Or, just maybe– The power is our own and the...

Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part – yet nothing in...

She’s very talented defensively, and she’s got a lot of power.

It’s funny, how for an entire lifetime we keep thinking ‘How’ will our life-partner look like, how will he be? How will he react to a particular situation? How will he get angry, and how...

In today’s environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it.

Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you’re oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That’s why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty...

absolute power is corrupting

For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken...

If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are.

Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close...

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Lydia had been fantasizing about him to the point she nearly drove him insane with it. It had taken four days for his energy to weaken inside her enough that he could go and visit...

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving power

Don’t trust children with edge tools. Don’t trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world...

Good intentions might sound nice, but it’s positive actions that matter.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.