P Quotes
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“Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right”
“Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.”
“Power always impresses the young and foolish.”
Source: The Saga of Larten Crepsley 1-4 (Birth of a Killer; Ocean of Blood; Palace of the Damned; Brothers to the Death) (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)
“Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.”
Source: The Nonviolent Alternative
“Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.”
Source: The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 1812-1826
“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.”
Source: The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 1812-1826
“Power always works from the corner office.”
“Power and beauty come from a very deep place.”
“Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.”
“Power and glory are two dialectic energies working in common ground. Taking a glimpse of the meandering under swell of glory in the shade of power, can be very inspiring and illuminating. ("The power and the glory" )”
“Power and glory make the world go round since they are essential drives shaping ambition and social motivation. Time and again, power, as a model of control or authority, sets the stage for glory and credit that results from success or achievement. ("The Power and the Glory")”
“Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep humanity strong and united, you can deliver and orchestrate others toward the greater good.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“Power and love can break the most stubborn resistence”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Power and peace are the results of fighting on your knees.”
“Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.”
“Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.”
“Power and speed be hands and feet.”
Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)
“Power and those in control concede nothing ... without a demand. Hey never have and never will... Each and every one of us must keep demanding, must keep fighting, must keep thundering, must keep plowing, must keep on keeping things struggling, must speak out and speak up until justice is served because where there is no justice there is no peace.”
“Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.”
“Power as a beneficial tool for aspiring achievers is primarily made up into four folds;
1. Power to control emotions,
2. Power to make right decisions,
3. Power to stand against depression,
4. Power to excel in innovations.”
“Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.”
Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition
“Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
“Power belongs to the intelligence of evil. It's totally unreflective, like Donald Trump. It belongs there.”
“Power beyond words lurked in the beast’s gaze, a magnetic force that ensnared my vision. I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the creature. Its serpentine tongue crept out, moist and glistening. Circling and circling and circling. I rolled my hips in tune, and an ungloved thumb caressed the sensitive nub. My mouth stretched into a silent scream, covered by a writhing tentacle.”
Source: The Maid's Secret
“Power...Born out of nature, Coveted by men; Wars rage on, And victors are crowned. But true power can never be lost or won. True power comes from within.”
“Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.”
“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”
Source: The Ghost
“Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.”
Source: Waiting for the Barbarians
“Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.”
Source: Waiting for the Barbarians
“Power built on fear is already collapsing. It just hasn’t admitted it yet.”
“Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.”
“Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.”
Source: Flesh and Fire: Book One of The Vineart War
“Power came the way a child came -- with agony.”
“Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The use of power is not to be taken lightly, for it is never without consequence.”
“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.”
“Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.”
Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
“power can quickly turn and control you..”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Power can't be separated from its history. A choice can't be taken in isolation from its context. Power is the ability to set the terns of the riddle. To arrange the rewards and punishments for which the choice is judged.”
Source: The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
“Power cedes nothing without a demand.”
“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.”
“Power comes at a price, love," Veliss replied through bared teeth, maintaining the smile she offered to the townsfolk lining the square.
"What power?"
"All power. The power to rule, to kill, or, in your case this fine morning, the power to incite the lust of the old goat you're about to meet."
"Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone."
Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. "Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.”
Source: Queen of Fire
“Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards.”
“Power comes from knowledge and knowledge comes with natural beauty in one's self.”
“Power comes from leading a controlled life, a happy life, a perky life.”
“Power comes from love,
Power comes from attachment.
Those who say attachment is weakness,
Have no idea of life's true wholeness.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided.”
Source: The Cancer Journals