5,584 Quotes About Power

It’s not about cruelty.” Gáspár has finally turned to face me. “It’s about power. Without power, all you have is anger and spite. Cruelty comes when you have the strength to turn your anger on someone else.

Given a bit more time he might have realized that what kept him alive was the same god whose continued existence drained his power so relentlessly.

Yes, his reputation is tainted. But which leader in this world doesn’t have a tainted reputation? Power is not a good thing. And the ones who wield it can never please all the people no matter how good their intentions are. Only a candy seller can please everyone.

Power is when what you think, say and do align.

Despite all the positive psychological attributes of hatred we have outlined, hatred destroys finally the core of the life of the hater. While it lasts, burning in white heat, its effect seems positive and dynamic. But at last it turns to ash, for it guarantees a final isolation from one’s fellows. It blinds the individual to all values of worth, even as they apply to himself and to his fellows. Hatred bears deadly and bitter fruit. It is blind and nondiscriminating.

Perception created by powerful people makes them more powerful.

Real-time relevancy gets real results, now

The mother swells, expanding from within without, like the bud of the lotus.

Darkness radiates the light, and light drops one solitary ray into the mother-deep.