After all, it isn't the facts of one's environment, but one's attitude toward them, that determines whether one will be defeated or victorious.
David HawkinsTag: consciousness power force
Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.
Niccolò MachiavelliTag: power justification wisdom-in-war
There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.
GangajiStill Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything he needed, just a few miles away on the island. The logical, rational answer was obvious.
"Which is why the world stays messed up," Caine said under his breath. "People aren't rational."
He took a few deep, steadying breaths, and prepared to die for power.
Tag: power gone-series caine michael-grant
But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.
Walter M. Miller Jr.Tag: wisdom love power gods godhood
The biggest trick of power may be to make its own existence unseen.
Amine ZidouhCreating consent (hegemony) is never a simple act. It is rather the result of the social structures and the cultural patterns that dictates for each group its behavior and for each institutions its practices.
Amine ZidouhTag: power critical-theory ideology critical-thinking hegemony
It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.
Elias CanettiTag: power enemy crowds canetti elias
Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.
Nancy FarmerThere is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple kings, and even Darklings. Do you know what that thing is?”
I shook my head, inching away from him.
“Faith,” he breathed, his black eyes wild. “Faith.
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