When you permit an outside agency to control your feelings and emotions at frequent intervals for a prolonged period, your system will soon get into the habit of submitting to the control of this outside...

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny,” Paul said. “They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and...

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

power happily walks hand in hand with abuse

The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words.

We can all get more together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power. Power is the ability to achieve purpose, power is the ability to effect change, and we need...

[Straw] had ample power to put an end to this shameful and damaging episode, … He has chosen instead to prolong it.

Today’s politicians are like policemen on traffic duty. They are just dealing with traffic right in front of them. Yet they want to be the Superintendent based on that alone. The politicians and the bigwigs...

Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple...

Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever in the court world by asking to be sent to the front, instead...

What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great literature, but...

They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it’s not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about,but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is...

She understood now that while it had been wrong to kill Cansrel, it had also been right. The boy with the strange eyes had helped her to see the rightness of it. The boy who’d...

Don’t you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?

they are defending the little power that they have left.

The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.

Everything on earth has a purpose to fulfill, though it may look worthless, but time will tell if god did a mistake in creating them.

To face a real daemon, you must first look inwards and conquer your own darkness. ☥

Reliable power to this building is a chronic issue.

Do we have a need for new power? Yes. No question about it. The question is going to be, ‘How should we provide that power?’ That’s the issue.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

There was no doubt now in Ender’s mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been...

She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock...

Heritage was everything: it was a golden skeleton key, gleaming with power, able to get the wielder through any number of locked doors; it was the christening of the marriage bed with virgin blood on...

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

Every day in life we’re told who this is and who that is. But when we sit we’re all the same when we remove our hat.

I am an expert at seeing peoples greatness.

Da revner tåken – og endnu en gang står han for oss, titanen, lynomfunklet, vassdrivende, skinnende som smergelpusset jern. Det raper av torden omkring ham, men det rager ham ikke, ingenting rager ham, der han...

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe,...

We are given power to change the course of the world to our direction.

Without your wound where would your power be? It is your very remorse that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children...

Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH.

His record, his silence, and the power of the position to which he’s been nominated, make John Roberts a dangerous bet one that senators shouldn’t take.

Names have power.

My borrowed power insists that negative situations, too, assist me on the path to greater becoming. It’s never about the circumstance(s); these are surface level ‘symptomatics’. How we deal with the energy it brings, however,...

We must transcend the illusion that money or power has any bearing on our worthiness as children of God.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.(1778 – 1830)

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one....

A manager is not a successful manager until he succeeds in managing managers successfully.

He probably wanted real power, the power to direct one’s environment towards a harmonious end, and not fictitious power, the power to order and be obeyed; and he must have known that he had not...

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.

Most of us, most of the time, act within plays the lines of which were written long ago, the images of which require recognition, not invention.

Sometimes the words people don’t say are as powerful as the ones they do.

Sex only makes people more like themselves. A powerful, secretive woman becomes only more powerful and more secretive in the throes of passion.

Understand your power. Live dangerously. Live fearlessly. Cower before no earthly master. Know yourself. Live truthfully. Live freely. Be yourself. Love yourself.

What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power!

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

Emotional states change like the wind, and to indulge them only gives them more power over a person.