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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Jacob Bronowski
Power is the by-product of understanding.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Andrew Jackson
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.

Bangambiki Habyarimana
To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.

Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

Jennifer Donnelly
Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

Roger edged past the chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder. The yelling ceased, and Samneric lay looking up in quiet terror. Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless...

William Golding Lord of the...
Roger edged past the chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder. The yelling ceased, and Samneric lay looking up in quiet terror. Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority.

One of them says, 'Why did they do it?' And the other answers, 'Because they could.' That is the only answer there ever is.

Naomi Alderman The Power
One of them says, 'Why did they do it?' And the other answers, 'Because they could.' That is the only answer there ever is.

The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They...

Steven Erikson
The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates

"... When a man aspires to power, I ask one simple question: 'Does he think like a businessman?' Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. 'I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power?...

David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
"... When a man aspires to power, I ask one simple question: 'Does he think like a businessman?' Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. 'I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch?"

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

Howard Zinn You Can't Be...
But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

Well it is said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour.

Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury...
Well it is said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour.

Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a hand behind us that sets to right all imbalances. Why do you think the saints seldom had the temporal...

Mark Helprin Winter's Tale

People who want nothing need nothing more than power.

Rebecca McNutt Bittersweet...

But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in...

Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

Joseph Conrad Lord Jim

RUTH: If you take the glass…I'll take you.

Harold Pinter The Homecoming

The more powerful the powerful appear the more invisible they become, said Armando. This used to work differently than now. In the old days it was said that the powerful merged with the divine and the...

Alice Walker Now Is the Time...

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

Tobias Wolff This Boy's Life

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

C. S. Lewis A Grief Observed

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose

You don't make waves unless there's a reason, and it better be good. Because once you do, that's it. You're a trouble make, and they never think of you any other way.

Curtis Sittenfeld Prep

Some people," Aunt Emily answered sharply, "are so busy seeing all sides of every issue that they neutralize concern and prevent necessary action. There's no strength in seeing all sides unless you...

Joy Kogawa Aunt

But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is...

Robert A. Caro The Passage of...

Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Then she was supposed to like it. To make her do...

Margaret Atwood Murder in the...

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of...

Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's...

The combination of power, fear, and mania can be deadly. The leader, convinced that he might be betrayed, acts first and betrays others first. Afraid that he's not well liked, he works so hard to get...

Ryan Holiday The Daily Stoic:...

The day of democracy is past," he said. "Past for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when marching infantry, when common men in masses ceased to win the battles of the world, when...

H. G. Wells When the Sleeper...

I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those which are overgrown may not advance beyond safe measures of power, that a salutary balance may be ever maintained among...

Thomas Jefferson Writings:...

As the long limousine purred to life Edwina felt as if she were Elizabeth, setting sail to battle the Spanish Armada. She was Elizabeth, damn it! What she had built no one was going to take away from...

Barbara Taylor Bradford Power of a Woman

In my experience, influence is power.

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game

The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game
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