“Backstabbers operate out of insecurity, believing they have to have perfect order to eliminate any threat to their power.”— Les Parrott III, amazon.com
“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“Of course I love him, she says, you don't give people you don't love the power to destroy you.”— S.Z, facebook.com
“Time is money; Money is power; Power is pizza; Pizza is knowledge. Let’s go!”— Amy Poehler, Michael Schur, April Ludgate, Aubrey Plaza, imdb.com
“Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you!”— Matt Groening, Russ Cargill, amazon.com
“The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was a part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“The darkness that haunts the lynch mob that in the day time is dispersed as lawyers, doctors, and church alderman. But that darkness hovers ghostlike in the shadowed alleys between the buildings. And at night it is all crazed power and torture, a thrill deeper that any ever imagined in the sleepy da…”— Karl Marlantes, amazon.com
“Mark Antony had a way out. Herod the Great's advice: put Cleopatra to death, annex Egypt. Let the pressure build all you want—if you have a scapegoat. She was his, he refused to use it. Died and lost every thing because of it.”— Anthony Everitt, amazon.com
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“God loves man, we are told, but love must be proved by facts, not reasons. If you were in a boat and did not save a drowning man, you would burn in Hell for certain; yet God, in His wisdom, feels no need to use His power to save anyone from a single moment of suffering, and in spite of his inaction…”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”— Elie Wiesel, eliewieselfoundation.org
“There was no good reason for me to do as he said, not then, not ever. I want to make that very clear. No mater what Dan asked of me, I always had the ability to say no. I simply didn't take it.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com