Convinced Quote by Nadine Gordimer

Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

— Louise Erdrich

Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.

— Gulzar

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

— Jonathan Swift

“If you are waiting to gain power to do something; then there is no difference between you and an unborn child.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

— Thomas Jefferson

Nothing has any power except the power that you give it.

— Marshall Sylver

We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.

— Frederick Lenz

The only thing power respects, is power.

— Malcolm X

The real secret of power is consciousness of power.

— Charles F. Haanel

The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence. And without…

— Frederick Lenz

What a lot of people don't understand is, you can't really do nothing for power - you're either born with it or you aren't.

— Adrien Broner

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