5,584 Quotes About Power

Pain is neccesary to find power.

Prayer is not a feeling. It's a power source, and those who tap into it get far more than a warm fuzzy. They get strength to move mountains.

Bank balances and investments are pieces of paper that get lost in the race of showmanship. If you are not part of it then you are no longer feeling poor.

Knowledge plus action is power

Monsters are real. Maybe they’re not supernatural or satanic beings, maybe they don’t take unnatural forms, and maybe they don’t feed on human flesh or blood, but they do exist, and humanity is powerless against them.Humans are inherently lazy, fragile, weak, cowardly, pathetic, self-centered, self-indulgent, and self-destructive. Very few have what it takes to overcome these flaws.The only thing that can kill a monster is a bigger monster.

The solution is, everywhere and always, the decentralization and redistribution of all forms of power.

You want stories that make sense, and this might not make sense to you. We build narratives of genius and exceptionality among the people who have power, and they are often exceptional, but no more exceptional than hundreds of thousands of others. In your system, power concentrates naturally. And so the thing that is most exceptional about a powerful person is almost always their power.

It was telling that he had taken responsibility for the thing that he did...but he did not mention the things done in his name. This was always the way of these strongmen. They would craft the fear so carefully and then toss it into the world for everyone to use. And when someone took that fear and destroyed with it, they were just "unstable" or "mentally ill".

Power concentrates naturally, but that concentration is, by itself, a problem.