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“I have a definition of success. For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.”
“I also realized by the way he actually cared that I could hurt him, really hurt him, if I wanted to. That's a power no one should ever realize. It's toxic.”
“I'm playing checkers while they're playing chessThey make the big moves that make me a little lessEven when I win and beat the pants off of the bestI'm still playing checkers while they're playing ...”
“Vincent Marc Hoherz. On power.The most effective way to loose your power is to make use of it.”
“Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.”
“I came to see the streets and the schools as the arms of the same beast. One enjoyed the official power of the state while the other enjoyed its implicit sanction. But fear and violence were the we...”
“Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers. The mad tend to crave it, many of the sane crave it, but the wise worry about its lo...”
“The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.”
“Money is only one kind of power. Faith is power, too. Love is power. Slaughter and madness are both roads to power. Certainly, symbols are power you wear one wherever you go, that purse you carry....”
“And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?”
“I'm struck by the difficulty I had in formulating it. When I think back now, I ask myself what else it was that I was talking about in Madness and Civilization or The Birth of the Clinic, but power...”
“Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.”
“I have not spent my time studying the problem of "race""race" itself is just a restatement and retrenchment of the problem. You see this from time to time when some dullardusually believing himself...”
“The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?”
“...But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness.”
“I have seen the poor suffer when nobles seek the purity of ideals. I have seen the powerless die when princes believe in the nostalgia of their dreams. I have seen the common people torn from peace...”
“God only gives men power to make wealth, meaning God does not give wealth, he gives the power to work for it. (Deut. 8:18)”
“The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.”
“I submit respectfully to the House as a general principle that our responsibility in this matter is directly proportionate to our power. Where there is great power there is great responsibility, wh...”
“The strong take from the weak. Thats what power is for.”
