5,584 Quotes About Power

Only in pain, we found the power within.

Who can chase a lion out of his den? Who can trust a coward with the throne? The old people in politics have seen the seat of power as their own inheritance, and the timid youths are busy chasing after crumbs.

The adaptable is the god in me.

The problem is made worse by ungodly thinkers who have deliberately networked themselves into positions where they can control the message. They have decided to become the influencers with the most power. They have become what’s called “the establishment” or “the elite.

Ungodly influencers don’t just hold sway over the scientific establishment, but they also control the majority of the news media, entertainment media, education establishment, fact-checkers, search engines, social media, corporate leadership, book-publishing establishment, libraries, and every other place of influence and power.

Pain is precious blessings. Dwell on the power it awaken within you.

This problem—the reconciliation of feminist goals and activism with romance and its ties to narrow conceptions of womanhood—has been far from solved for feminists growing up in the 21st century, whether on screen or in real life. This problem is at the heart of my own yearnings and my attempts to find assurance and even decent blueprints in the unsatisfactory onscreen fantasies about the strong, independent woman. (5)

[B]y the beginning of the 21st century, the fighting female capable of spectacular violence had gained a firm ground, and there were more versions of them than ever before on the big and small screens, and the number only continues to increase. Audiences growing up in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, male and female, have been raised on depictions of women onscreen who could more than hold their own and didn’t need to be protected, at least no more than a man did.

Today, some viewers who seek or expect constructions of female identity that cohere with expectations for a strong, independent woman who can take care of herself and save others have less patience with uncomplicated stereotypical representations of the utterly helpless female, no matter the genre. (9)