5,584 Quotes About Power

I love power like a musician loves music.

I am a woman alone in a powerful man’s house. I have no true allies. I will do what I must to survive.”Joran looked almost startled. “You did not want to be his whore?”The word made Nina bristle. “Is that so hard to believe?”“Commander Brum … he would never. He would not force—”“He has no need to resort to force. He prefers a different kind of submission.

[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends of these divisions to go unchecked.

Never think that because you did it better than it's been done that it's good enough.

In the fawning soul of the mob everything is justified by the victorious employment of force. It transfigures treachery, desertion, murder, lying, and any kind of rascality, turning them into wholesome necessities which the servile people accept and swiftly forget as a child does a bitter medicine.

Our internal light has the power to lighten up this whole world.

Our internal light has the power to light up this whole world.

Ihr wißt nicht, schwache Seelen,Was ein beleidigt Mutterherz vermag.Ich liebe, wer mir gutes tut und hasseWer mich verletzt, und ist's der eigene Sohn,Den ich geboren, desto hassenswerter.

He who harnesses the power of other people's stupidity rules the world.