5,584 Quotes About Power

I thought not fitting in was something I had to fix. Now I see it as my superpower.

If the witches wanted a beast, she’d give them teeth and claws.She just hoped that they were ready to bleed for it.

There is no greater equaliser than the stupidity of men, especially when those men have power.

She's a woman in love and is loved in return. That is a powerful thing.

We adjust ourselves to fit, to adapt to others’ ideas of who we should be. We shift ourselves not in sweeping pivots but in movements so tiny that they are hardly perceptible even in our view. Years can pass before we finally discover that after handing over our power, piece by small piece, we no longer even look like ourselves.

Let us take care not to yield to evil's power, because evil has no power but what we give it.

But I also instantly recognized this response as my conditioning from grad school, where these things were trained out of me, where I was reprogrammed in a way that actually took away my power while purporting to give me access to power--power that, through my voice, I'd already had.

Can you really crush stone?” Angel asked. “Or was that a lie?”Without looking behind him, David slammed his fist into one of the marble columns. It cracked, and several chunks immediately crumbled loose to scatter to the tiled floor like crumbs of flaking pastry. “Elevators,” he said. “This way.”“Jesus Christ,” Angel said to Cassandra. “He doesn’t look scary, but he’s fucking terrifying.

Assertion, even self-assertion, does not invariably bespeak an urge to annihilate the opposition or to wield coercive power.