Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.
There’s a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
Religion is never the problem; it’s the people who use it to gain power.
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.
The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don’t share your ideas, smart people can’t do anything about them, and you’ll remain anonymous and powerless.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
