5,584 Quotes About Power

Expressions of kindness in times of social change and public protest should focus on those who are seeking justice and liberation and not on the ones whose privileged worlds are being disrupted by the leveling of a social playing field or a correction in disparities of access, power, or authority.

Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame.

Magic in words?” He asks, running his fingers along the spine of an old blue volume with gold edging. “I’ve never needed words so much before. I never knew what power they held having been written. I know of the power of thought and action. This magic is new to me, so perhaps you’re right.

Believe in yourself, that you believe in God, that believes in you.

The desire to control others, to have them in your power, is the ultimate evil.

There is no progress without power to work.

It's one thing to be powerless and another to be useless.

This gossip did not mean that her servants were disloyal, but rather that they were proud of their mistress.

One must placate large strange men in the middle of nowhere.