Quotes about Power

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

What you conquer in your soul you conquer in your world.

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.

Pero hoy la guerra ya no es guerra. Ya no es el hombre quien cuenta, la máquina lo es todo.

It is not, however, only the word, it is also the thing, in all its infinite complexity, that he [Kafka] articulates with unrivaled courage and clarity. For, since he fears power in any form, since the real aim of his life is to withdraw from it, in whatever form it may appear, he detects it, identifies it, names it, and creates figures of it in every instance where others would accept it as being nothing out of the ordinary.

The touch to which one resigns oneself because all resistance appears hopeless — and particularly so as regards the future — has, in our society, become the arrest . The feel of the hand of authority on his shoulder is usually enough to make a man give himself up without having to be actually seized. He cowers and goes quietly.