5,584 Quotes About Power

  • Author Brittney Cooper
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    Empowerment looks like cultivating the wisdom to make the best choices we can out of what are customarily a piss-poor set of options. Power looks like the ability to create better options. The powerlessness and capriciousness of being repeatedly jammed up at the personal and political crossroads of one's intersection while a watching world pretends not to see you there, needing help, is how it feels to be a Black woman on an ordinary day.

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  • Author Adolf Hitler
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    The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

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  • Author Holly Black
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    Nicasia said that as mortal power grows, land and sea ought to be united. And that they would be, either in the way she hoped or the way I should fear.”“Ominous,” I say.“It seems I have a singular taste for women who threaten me.

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