Able Quote by Catharine MacKinnon

This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among…

— Elizabeth Janeway

The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're…

— Peg O'Connor

If you think you are powerless, then you are

— Anonymous

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the…

— Matthew Specktor

Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do that thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing,…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own.

— Dr Wade Noble

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

— Juvenal

Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.

— Frederick Lenz

All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you.

— Swami Vivekananda

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular…

— Steven Erikson

Power without authority is tyranny.

— Jacques Maritain