Body Quote by Michel Foucault

When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.

— Anonymous

“Every exercise of power incorporates a faint, almost imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can only dominate…

— Sándor Márai

Power is making a statement about who you are.

— Christina Aguilera

“Inherent power you possess as part of yourself. Granted power is lent or given by other people.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

— Swami Vivekananda

Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an individual; it…

— Hannah Arendt

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the…

— Vernon Howard

“The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.”

— George Orwell

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

“equal, hierarchical, or unrelated? These relationships also define the exercise of power as a collective act. A psychological”

— James MacGregor Burns