Quotes of: Powers Keyword

need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9)

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

Ender's Game

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

Eva Luna

No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku?

Emperor Mage

Form your own autonomous group, answering to no power but your own, and chase down freedom for yourselves, if your representatives will not do if for you- since they cannot do it for you.

Expect Resistance: A Field Manual

Love is a more powerful force than magic. You can trick the mind and even the heart, but never the soul. When a person is not free to love with their soul, that is not love and that is why a love spell can never truly work.

Entangled

Never make fun of people who are different...unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

Earthly Powers

Unless you're involved in the system of coercive force, with money alone you don't get power.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

Every Soul a Star

Liberty is not an Idea belonging to Volition, or preferring; but to the Person having the Power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the Mind shall chuse or direct.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The only creative force capable of causally revising your experienced reality is your power to change your Self.

Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth

After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America.” -Elizabeth Bisland

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've taken everything from is no longer in your power. He's free all over again.

The First Circle

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.

Far from the Madding Crowd

Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ours is the power to prevent it? - Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic)

The Fantastic Four: The Trial of Galactus

Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

Floating in My Mother's Palm

In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers.

The Forests of Silence