Power Quotes

"Authority can override our strongest moral convictions."

"Living authentically requires risking rejection and misunderstanding."

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

"The ability to choose our attitude is what separates us from mere circumstance."

"The mind is more powerful than any circumstance that surrounds us."

"No circumstance is so bleak that it cannot be transformed through the power of our choice."

"The power of the group lies in its ability to control information and interpretation."

"The majority is not always right, but it is always powerful."

"The group can control not just our actions but our perceptions of reality itself."

"The group's power lies not in force but in the individual's desire for acceptance."

"The power of consensus lies in its ability to seem like objective truth."

"The group's greatest power is its ability to make conformity seem natural and inevitable."

"The power of the group depends on the individual's acceptance of its authority."

"The illusion of anonymity within an institution can transform ordinary people into agents of extraordinary harm."

"Power corrupts most rapidly when it operates without transparency or accountability."

"Every system of power relies on the passive consent of those it controls."

"The nature of power is that it will expand infinitely unless constrained by ethical boundaries."

"The greater the dissonance, the greater the motivation to reduce it."

"The strength of our beliefs determines our response to dissonance."

"Human nature has no limitation except those we believe it to have."

"I should like to go one step further now and say, 'Give me a baby and I'll shape him into anything.'"

"Give me control of the media and I will control the mind."

"Every human being is malleable and can be shaped through proper conditioning."

"We can shape human nature through proper environmental control."

"Power that lasts is never power over others, but power shared with them."

"I believe that power without love often becomes cruelty masquerading as authority."

"We are taught to think of ourselves as autonomous beings, yet in reality we are responsive to subtle environmental pressures."

"The experimenter's calm demeanor and assertion of responsibility had a powerful effect on subject compliance."

"The individual conscience becomes subordinated to institutional authority in many social contexts."

"Authority is most effective when it presents itself as inevitable and beyond question."