Power Quotes - Page 31

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.

A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know

You are more powerful than any fearful force. Your Divine willingness can out-will any darkness that the world has ever seen.

Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth.

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into manifestation without woman. She is principal, a powerful energy. She is first.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -on your mirror!

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

The most powerful medicine is at the end of your fork, not at the bottom of your pill bottle. Food is more powerful than anything in your medicine cabinet!

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful.

I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

Forever is composed of nows.