Kami Garcia Quotes

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Hegemony mean[t] that [Athens] organized and directed their combined efforts without securing permanent political power over the other[s].

The people who exercise the power are not always the same people over whom it is exercised.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

I like power and I like to use it.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.