Power Quotes
Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.
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"The real revolution is to imagine you are free."Margaret Atwood
"You think you're powerless, but powerlessness is a belief."Margaret Atwood
"Whatever is enclosed will eventually explode."Margaret Atwood
"There are many kinds of power, not all of them violent."Margaret Atwood
"I am not one to limit the power of the pen if it is wielded right."Flannery O'Connor
"The power of a single word can reshape a life."Robertson Davies
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."Cormac McCarthy
"Power corrupts those who believe they are justified in wielding it without restraint."Joyce Carol Oates
"Power is most dangerous when wielded by those who believe they deserve it."Joyce Carol Oates
"A word after a word after a word is power."Margaret Atwood
"Pen is the barrel of a gun."Margaret Atwood
"What a man is is an addiction to power."Margaret Atwood
"Language can be dangerous when you're not careful with it."Margaret Atwood
"Words are a form of action."Margaret Atwood
"The power of choice is your greatest gift"Robertson Davies
"Power is a kind of sickness. You have to ask yourself if you're willing to be sick for long enough to get what you want."Cormac McCarthy
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."Cormac McCarthy
"Power corrupts most efficiently when it remains unquestioned."Joyce Carol Oates
"The mind is more dangerous than any external weapon."Joyce Carol Oates
"The greatest human power is the power to move."Saul Bellow
"Power without conscience is just tyranny wearing different clothes."Cormac McCarthy
"Impotence and tyranny are so intimately connected."Philip Roth
"The power to change others begins with the courage to change ourselves."Carson McCullers
"Power lies in the telling of a story truthfully."Eudora Welty
"The law of the world is that the strongest survive, and this has never changed."Cormac McCarthy
"Everything is a decision, and so most of life is about deciding."David Foster Wallace
"You don't get to choose your era, but you choose how to live in it."David Foster Wallace
"You become what you pay attention to."David Foster Wallace
"Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain."Norman Mailer
"The greatest power is the power over oneself."Norman Mailer