All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness...

Naysayers are frightened by their own power.

Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done. People sort of think it’s an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don’t think it’s any of that — it’s helpless …...

Believers infiltrate the enemy’s territory with knowledge and power.

Do you still believe i public opinion? Well let me tell you public opinion is a gimmick thought up by the English and Americans, it’s them who are shitting us up with this public opinion...

Use your natural powers – of persistence, concentration, and insight – to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply

Those who love, truly love, can be coerced into nothing.

Power,’ as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, ‘enters the picture in two ways’: the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, ‘deviants are those who...

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn’t enough for me. Can you understand that?

I guess I grew suspicious of both. Power and knowledge,” I say. “To the Abnegation, power should only be given to people who don’t want it.” – Tris

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs

When all that says ‘it is good’ has been debunked, what says ‘I want’ remains. (…) The Conditioners, therefore, must come to be motivated simply by their own pleasure. (…) My point is that those...

Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life.

Your power and brilliance is the the most awesome force life could muster.

I don’t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it’s about maintaining a militia. It’s about having possession of a tool that makes a person...

A mind may appreciate anyone, but it takes only heart to respect someone and that’s applicable to everyone and so trust, none could ever honestly deny the fact that the heart is better than the...

Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously.

He alone exists hereafter; this place is in His Power.

It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them. It’s the process of being used, examined, explored, and thrown away. It’s the...

Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities.

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house

It lent a Man a certain peace of mind… to ride through threats and terrors unhearing: it even lent a man a certain real protection, for he could not hear temptation and bad advice to...

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense… a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. – Bertrand Zobrist

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Wakati mwingine inaweza kuonekana kuwa kadiri unavyozidi kujitolea kwa ajili ya watu wengine ndivyo unavyozidi kuwa maskini, lakini hii si kweli. Huduma kwa ajili ya watu wengine huleta maana fulani na ukamilifu katika maisha yetu...

For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only too well. I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow,...

My dearest friend Abigail, These probably could be the last words I write to you and I may not live long enough to see your response but I truly have lived long enough to live...

a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done

Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God’s people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall.

Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the...

Craving for power, titles and promotion to high places is not a tool for carving impacts in the heart the world. High positions polluted by bad character are the poisons that dehydrate the world of...

The economy of your country shall never determine the size of your three square meals if you know you can rise against and above all limitations! The climatic emergencies in the weather shall never determine...

The mountains are where God proves He’s better than Michelangelo at sculpting.

After all, it isn’t the facts of one’s environment, but one’s attitude toward them, that determines whether one will be defeated or victorious.

Prayers are not measured or answered by the number of multitudes or pilgrims praying but by the seeds of their faith.

I only want power so I can get books.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. […] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

When others seem to take advantage of you, do not retaliate by trying to take advantage of them. Use your power in improving yourself, so that you can do better and better work. That is...

Humans do not simply, innocently, and honestly disagree with each other about the good, the just, the right, the principles and applications of moral distinction and valuation, for they are already caught, like it or...

When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can push (which either screws or nails something) they become Gods...

White men are irresponsible with their power and money. Our beautiful earth is million of years old, and in a mere five hundred years, white people have nearly destroyed it. Another hundred years like the...

When you’re involved in the work of the Lord, the power behind you is always greater than the obstacles before you.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it’s the one part of you the world can’t interfere with.

Wolves regularly attacked their rivals in power, so the idea of killing to gain position was neither alien nor repulsive to her. The use of assassins she had filed as yet another of the curious...

A ray of sunshine, I bring to the world my passion of guiding others to their point of power by first loving themselves from the inside out. I Am on a never ending journey of...

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America’s ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just two things: staying in power, and hoovering up enough of what’s left of...

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability...

The only thing more dangerous then your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are.