5,584 Quotes About Power

If knowledge is power, then self-knowledge is empowerment.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever."Jack answered with his gut. "No, love goes on forever.

Between us, we have the fire and the water. I'm quite sure that together, we can take on the wind.

...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've taken everything from is no longer in your power. He's free all over again.

As soon as enough people realize the emperors have no clothes, it will collapse with incredible speed.

Dismantling power is an urgent necessity, but creating replacement structures is far more urgent.