Paradox of Power Quotes

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden

[Referring to the Democrats:] They can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays.

The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.