Power Quote by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

— C. S. Lewis

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

— Jeanette Winterson

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

— Leo Tolstoy

Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another.

— Frederick Lenz

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

— Black Elk

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

— Robert Greene

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

— Henry David Thoreau

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

— Angela Carter

Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

— Jean Baudrillard

“Virtually anything can be translated—“X cannot be translated” usually means nothing more exciting than “We have a word, X, that you need three or…

— Robert Lane Greene

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