Power Quotes
Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.
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"Think about your hands, what they have done, what they can do."Toni Morrison
"I have discovered that I have the power within me to create my own destiny."Langston Hughes
"The voice of the people is powerful when it speaks with unity and purpose."Langston Hughes
"Power without consciousness is merely brutality repeated."Richard Wright
"The only true power is the power to define oneself on one's own terms."Richard Wright
"The greatest power lies in the ability to make others see through your eyes."Richard Wright
"Power is not merely the ability to dominate but the ability to transform."Ralph Ellison
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission."Zora Neale Hurston
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."Zora Neale Hurston
"Power does not have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping."James Baldwin
"Our choices define us more than our circumstances."Pearl S. Buck
"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts."John Steinbeck
"Power corrupts the weak but strengthens the strong."William Faulkner
"The most powerful force in the world is human determination."Langston Hughes
"Power comes from within, not from without."Langston Hughes
"Money never whipped anybody. You lay down the lash yourself."Zora Neale Hurston
"Knowledge, incontestably, is power."James Baldwin
"The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim."James Baldwin
"What is it that you think I could not know or do?"James Baldwin
"We are not given a good life or a bad life. We are given a life and the power to make it good or bad."Pearl S. Buck
"The duty of the human being is to assume control over their own circumstances."Pearl S. Buck
"All Gents who own land feel that they're men of ability."Sinclair Lewis
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond measure."Sinclair Lewis
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."Sinclair Lewis
"The conflict between power and love is the never-ending conflict."John Steinbeck
"We are not going to have things done to us. We are going to do them."John Steinbeck
"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve them."Theodore Dreiser
"Power corrupts."Theodore Dreiser
"The man who could dominate others could dominate his own smaller self."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big."F. Scott Fitzgerald