5,584 Quotes About Power

After that day, I discovered one indelible truth. I discovered that love wasn’t everything that mattered in life. It was an emotion that not many had the luxury of feeling without any pain attached to it. Many say that love will set you free, but I disagree. Love is a cage, a very painful one; its gilded bars made with yearning, heartache, and unfulfilled dreams. And the moment I realized that love wasn’t necessary to one’s survival I became free. No one would have the power to hurt me again.

I don’t want to be your snack, your chew-toy, your fuck-buddy. Find a vampire to sink your fang into.

In the palace, during my imprisonment, I learned that Maven had been made by his mother, formed into the monster he became. There is nothing on earth that can change him or what she did. But Cal was made too. All of us were made by someone else, and all of us have some thread of steel that nothing and no one can cut. I thought Cal was immune to the corruptive temptation of power. How wrong I was. He was born to be a king. It's what he was made for. It's what he was made to want.

Earth will be monetized until all trees grow in straight lines, three people own all seven continents, and every large organism is bred to be slaughtered.

The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.

Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.

They say Knowledge is to be Secret so to be Used for the Benefit of the Owner, Thus if become Public, the Value of it Decreases as it could be Learned. BUT that is not the case, what if Knowledge is Public but Understood and Applied only by a Few ? That creates Encryption on the Knowledge... Interesting.