Power Quotes

"Your voice matters, use it wisely."

"When you have scale, you have responsibility. Use it wisely."

"Power without empathy is tyranny; empathy without power is ineffective."

"The master tries to hide his dependence on the slave through the discourse of power"

"Water is life, and whoever controls water controls the future."

"The desire for power is a fundamental human drive."

"The pursuit of power without love creates tyranny."

"The power of a single word can change a life."

"Castration is the necessary condition of language."

"The phallus is not the penis; it is a signifier."

"The law operates through its very transgression."

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."

"The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me."

"You cannot control external events, but you can control your responses to them."

"Power properly understood is the ability to influence through presence, not through domination."

"The master signifier commands all other signifiers."

"Speech is action."

"Authority cannot be established without the symbolic."

"The power to change lies within each person waiting to be awakened."

"The power of suggestion is strongest when we are most vulnerable."

"The power to transform our lives begins with changing our perception."

"The pursuit of status is often a mask for the pursuit of safety."

"The drive toward power is often a compensation for a sense of powerlessness."

"Power is not intrinsically evil; it is the abuse of power that corrupts."

"The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me."

"No one can determine your life for you; no one else can rob you of the power to choose your attitude."

"Power understood as domination of others is a corruption of what power truly is: the ability to effect change."

"The map is a form of power."

"Classification is a form of control."

"Our culture teaches us to be afraid of our own power."