Power Quotes

"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. " "We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?" "The person that gives the value first has the leverage." "Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy" "The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power." "The mind is the most powerful tool we have for creating the life we want" "Power is competence" "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power" "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it" "The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power " "If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world " "Power has to be insecure to be responsive." "Thrive is the third metric to measuring success beyond money and power" "Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied" "In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own" "When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful." "In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power" "It is certain, in any case, that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have" "History will judge societies and governments and their institutions not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and powerful but how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless"