P Quotes
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“Power is everywhere when you can see it and find it. It is nowhere when you can't.”
“Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere.”
“Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.”
Source: The Algebra of Infinite Justice
“Power is founded upon opinion.”
“Power is generally defined as control over resources and control over access to resources, which often means control over other people because we're thinking about things like financial resources or shelter, or even love and affection, but we also possess resources that we sometimes can't access.”
“Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.”
“Power is given, not taken.”
“Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.”
“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!”
“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only master of all is the Creator, and he created all men to be free. Freedom is a God-given right, not a human-granted gift. No man should have to fight to breathe in good health and peace.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!”
“Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
Source: 1984
“Power is in unity if you are scattered and separated، the smallest force will destroy you.”
“Power is infectious. Power is greedy.”
Source: The Wicked King
“Power is intoxicating.”
“Power is just a lack of constraint.”
Source: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else.”
“Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.”
“Power is knowing your past.”
“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.”
“Power is like prostitution and it could have pleasure for a while but it has to go to another man”
Source: HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good
“Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.”
Source: Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson
“Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.”
“Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.”
“Power is making a statement about who you are.”
“Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.”
“Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils.
[Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]”
“Power is more than the punch. I get so much power and belief in myself from God, and from God the power passes through my legs, through my hips, up to my shoulders, through my arms, and into my fists...I'm written to be a legend.”
“Power is most safe with those who are not in love with it!”
“Power is mostly a matter of making the right corpses at the right time.”
– Dread Empress Malicia the First”
Source: So You Want to Be a Villain?
“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”
“Power is neither good nor evil. It just is. It's what people do with power that matters.”
Source: The Traitor Prince
“Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.”
“Power is neither good nor evil.”
“Power is neither male nor female.”
“Power is neither male or female.”
“Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!”
“Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.”
“Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate.”
“Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.”
“Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge and practice circulate and take hold. This way of understanding the dispersion of power helps us realize that power is not simply about certain individuals being targeted for death or exclusion by a ruler, but instead about the creation of norms that distribute vulnerability and security.”
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”
Source: 1984
“Power is not a means; it is an end.”
“power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.”
“Power is not a thing to earn; it is a thing to conquer.”
Source: Girl of Dust and Smoke
“Power is not about outer force and control, but rather the power of self-presence and genuine self-control. By attaining complete self-control and realizing a truly integrated self, we will no longer seek an outer expression of power and will use power only when truly needed.”
“Power is not alluring to pure minds.”
Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
“Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.”
Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction