Quotes about Power

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.

I love alpha males.

The institutions of black enslavement and white supremacy did not exist before Democrats in the South created them. The very same institutions then became the mechanisms that Democrats used to build their power, and also to repel and defeat attempts by Republicans to extend rights and opportunities to black Americans.

For Alinsky, morality is a scam. Morality is the cloak of power. Activists appeal to the language of morality but recognize that it is a mere disguise. As Alinsky puts it, "Ethical standards must be elastic to stretch with the times... In action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent with one's individual conscience... You do what you can with what you have, and then clothe it with moral garments."

Jordan—Jimmy Carter's chief of staff. Jordan said the Clintons "are not a couple but a business partnership." Every

What attracts us doesn't always connect us. I can't tell you how many friends I have who have been taken in by somebody sexy or powerful or charming but soon after find themselves feeling alone in the relationship. It's one thing to impress people, but it's another to love them.

After all, to love somebody is to give them the power to hurt you, and nobody can hurt you if you're the only one writing the script.

Asking forgiveness involves giving power to the person you're seeking forgiveness from.

Pain can serve a purpose if we cause it to. Again, while we do not have power over all that happens in the world, we do have power over our perspective. We can choose to take unfair and undue pain and cause it to serve our own story so that we become better. So that we transform.

Story is atomic. It is perpetual energy and can power a city. Story is the one thing that can hold a human being's attention for hours.

When we don't ask clearly for the sale, the customer senses weakness.