5,584 Quotes About Power

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

كثيرا ما قال لي أبي حينما كنت طفلا إن اليابانيين على علم بثلاث قوى:"قوة السيف وقوة الدرر وقوة المرايا"فالسيف يرمز لقوة السلاح، ولطالما انفقت أمريكا تريليونات الدولارات على الأسلحة وهي لهذا أضحت القوة العسكرية الكبرى في العالم.أما الدرر فترمز لقوة المال، وهناك درجة من الصحة في المقولة القائلة: "تذكر القاعدة الذهبية وهي أن من يحوز المال هو من يضع القواعد"وأما المرايا فترمز لقوة المعرفة بالذات، وهذه المعرفة بالذات -طبقا للأسطورة اليابانية- هي الكنز الأعظم بين هذه القوى الثلاث.

It doesn’t matter how long it takes Ba ga Mohlala to claim their Glory,but it will be done

Life is never a quest for pleasure nor power but purity.

The real power is to pray.

Bob Moses had learned what was needed to make dreams become realities. He had learned the lesson of power.And now he grabbed for power with both hands. To free his hands for the grab, he shook impatiently from them the last crumbs of the principles with which he had entered public service and for which, during his years of idealism, he had fought só hard.

But shouting is only shouting, Karika, and threats can’t change anything. There’s a reason why the devil is desperate to keep us from the light. Evil deeds, evil people will never prevail as long as there’s light.

Literature says something and, at the same time, it denies what it has said; it doesn’t destroy signs, it make them play and it plays them. If and whether literature is liberation from the power of the given language depends on the nature of this power.

Avoid having power over anyone, unless it be the power of life and death.