Power

"There are few things more powerful than people united."

"Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment."

"The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!"

"Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake."

"Be Like Lightning Which Has The Power To Animate Or Destroy Life... It's Up To You Which Side You Wanna Take..."

"Don’t think too small about what God could do in your life—be prepared for God to do a big thing."

"The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger."

"Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason for fighting. Because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretense of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons rapidly developed by servile scientists will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you into pieces."

"When you understand the mechanincs of stress and master the techniques to manipulate someone's fears and dreams, you will be powerful."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. ... Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. ... Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

"Don’t be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!"

"There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God."

"we were nothing more than actions to reactions - helpless against our own fate. It's true. I react and others pay."

"Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else."

"Can I tell you a boring science fact" she whispered. "I bet you didn't learn it in Shadowhunter history class."If you're trying to distract me from talking about my feelings, you're not being very subtle about it." He touched her face. "You know I make speeches. It's okay. You don't have to make them back. Just tell me you love me,"I'm not trying to distract you." She held up her hand and wiggles the fingers. "There are a hundred trillion cells in the human body," she said. "And every single one of the cells of my body loves you. We shed cells, and grow new ones, and my new cells love you more than the old ones, which is why I love you more every day than I did before. It's science. And when I die and they burn my body and I become ashes that mix with the air, and part of the ground and the trees and the stars, everyone who breathes air of sees the flowers that grow out of the ground or looks up at the stars will remember you and love you, because I love you that much," She smiled. "How was that for a speech?"

"I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine."

"Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good man in private life to a tyrant in office." It acts upon men like drink: it "is known to be intoxicating in its nature"—"too intoxicating and liable to abuse." And nothing within man is sufficiently strong to guard against these effects of power—certainly not "the united considerations of reason and religion," for they have never "been sufficiently powerful to restrain these lusts of men."

"The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs"

"For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings, it may become a scourge, a curse, and severe punishment to a people." What made it so, what turned power into a malignent force, was not its own nature so much as the nature of man—his susceptibility to corruption and his lust for self-aggrandizement."

"Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is."