Read quote“What is new to the Africans is the fact that God's power is manifest in weakness.”
About Power
Influence, authority, control, and the dynamics between the powerful and powerless.
The collection
Words on Power
Read quote“Anyone's equal, no one's superior.”
Read quote“I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.”
Read quote“L'économie financiarisée est le principal ennemi.”
Read quote“It is not only wanting to tell your story, but to also tell it your way that’s part of the struggle.”
Read quote“I think artists have the power to introduce or challenge an idea effectively.”
Read quote“The essence of obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out another person's wishes.”
Read quote“Because we created it, we can change it.”
Read quote“Ja mam tyle pieniędzy, że on ma być we wszystkich stylach.”
Read quote“I wanted a boundless, non-hierarchical kind of company.”
Read quote“We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.”
Read quote“Some mornings I even feel a new strength, and I feel that once again I can believe in my powers.”
Read quote“We have the capacity and the power within us to do anything that we want to do.”
Read quote“La femme serait vraiment l’égale de l’homme le jour où, à un poste important, on désignerait une femme incompétente.”
Read quote“Schall has more influence upon the emperor than any viceroy, or than the most respected prince, and the name of Father Adam is better known in China than the name of any famous man is in Europe.”
Read quote“The truth is not neutral.”
Read quote“The guy who gets upset is never the politician or the businessman, it’s the guy who loves the politician or the businessman.”
Read quote“The power of man over animal life, in producing whatever varieties of form he pleases, is enormously great.”
Read quote“reaction to my experience as a black man in a social world created by white people primarily for their own ends”
Read quote“Boss, you got me out of jail and now I've come to be your man.”
