Power Quotes

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

For women, the best way to defend is to attack, and the best way to attack is a sudden and inexplicable retreat.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don’t have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.