If you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely deadly. Nothing can get in your way.Jordan B. Peterson
If a person with power speaks, they tend to set the tone for the rest of the discussion. So you don't want them to speak at the beginning.Ed Catmull
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.Paulo Freire
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.Sigmund Freud
If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly. Writing is thinking formalized. You gain the ability to think by first learning to write very, very carefully. Then, when you can write effectively, you can do anything you want, and no one will stop you.Jordan B. Peterson
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.Abraham Lincoln
All power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.Frank Herbert
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.Plato
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.Plato
The most harm of all is done when power is in the hands of people who are absolutely persuaded of the purity of their instincts and intentions.Milton Friedman
A truthful word is more powerful than popes, bishops, kings, and all the rich men on earth.Leo Tolstoy
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.J. K. Rowling
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.Richard Bach
True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.Hrithik Roshan
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.Tony Robbins
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.Swami Vivekananda
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.Audre Lorde
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.Marianne Williamson
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.Dalai Lama