Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Power Dynamics Quotes
AccountabilityConsequenceMoral ResponsibilityPower Dynamics Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
GratitudeIsolationMinisteringPersonal NeedsPower Dynamics I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.
FlatteryPower DynamicsStrategy Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
ConflictExploitationGreedPower DynamicsWealth War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Gender RolesIdentityPower DynamicsSelf-DiscoverySocietal Expectations For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It's very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.
HumilityIntegrityPower DynamicsSelf RespectTemptation I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
ExploitationHistorical ContextPower DynamicsWealth Inequality Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
AgencyBeliefControlImaginationPower Dynamics All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
ControlIgnorancePersecutionPower DynamicsSuperstition The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.
AuthorityDeceptionEthical ConsiderationsLeadershipPower Dynamics 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.
HumorLeadershipPerceptionPoliticsPower Dynamics I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything.
CivilizationConflictHistoryPower DynamicsSociety Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
AuthorityConfusionPolitical PhilosophyPower DynamicsRebellion Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Childhood and GrowthCreativity SuppressionPower DynamicsResponsibilitySocietal Structure Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity.
DeceptionDissimulationPoliticsPower DynamicsTrust The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Celebrity CultureEthics and MoralityHollywood IndustryPower DynamicsSuccess and Career Progression The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
DefianceLoyaltyPower DynamicsResilience In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
EthicsFinancial SystemsPower DynamicsValueWork Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
EducationGovernanceInstabilityPower DynamicsSocial Change It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
LeadershipMotivationPower DynamicsPublic ServiceSocial Responsibility There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.
AuthorityCivic ResponsibilityDemocracyDictatorshipPower Dynamics The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
ColonialismIndependencePower Dynamics Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
Authority MisuseDomestic GovernanceJustificationPower DynamicsTyranny A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
CivilizationConflictLeadershipPower DynamicsSociety One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
ConscienceInactionPower DynamicsSilenceTyranny All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
