“Power resides where men believe it resides… It’s a trick… A shadow on the wall…”— George R. R. Martin, Varys, amazon.com
“A job with real power is the First Lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for President are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“Men remain the gatekeepers to money and life experience, but we still see girls and young women as the ones with the power ― the power to cajole and seduce it from their daddies and their boyfriends. The solution, apparently, is for women simply to stop doing this, to stop trying to exploit and comp…”— Claire Fallon, huffingtonpost.com
“A 5-year old girls also gets raped. A woman covered in a burkha too. A 70-year old woman gets raped. This is not about sexuality or nudity. This is about control and power. I think men are insecure, afraid of being rejected. They can’t control a woman’s sexuality and that scares them. From an early…”— Ritabhari Chakraborty and Arindam Sil, youtube.com
“Power lies in knowing how your positive presence expands your outer life.”— Gabby Bernstein, twitter.com
“Why do no churches have wifi? Because no church wants to compete with an invisible power that actually works.”— NotATypicalTeen, reddit.com
“Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.”— Philip Zimbardo, amazon.com
“Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can”— Philip Zimbardo, goodreads.com
“You can create in the prisoners feelings of boredom, a sense of fear to some degree, you can create a notion of arbitrariness that their life is totally controlled by us, by the system, you, me, and they'll have no privacy... We're going to take away their individuality in various ways. In general w…”— Philip Zimbardo, en.wikipedia.org
“Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty. Government represents power in the hands of some men to control and regulate the lives of other men. And power, as Lord Acton said, corrupts men. Absolute power, he added, corrupts absolutely.”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.com
“Any government which can promise you everything you want can also take away everything you have.”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.com
“Let us henceforth make war on all monopolies—whether corporate or union. The enemy of freedom is unrestrained power, and the champions of freedom will fight against the concentration of power wherever they find it.”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.com
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those w…”— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com
“Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.”— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com
“She felt dangerously powerful, she loved, she knew love, everything else paled.”— Anna Delbee, amazon.com
“Don’t be so vain to think that you ruined me, that you wrecked me, destroyed me. I am the only one who has the power to do that.”— Amanda Helm, rushingwonder.tumblr.com
“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com