Power Quotes

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.

Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

Faith in the guidance of Spirit gives you the courage to take risks, because you're assured that whatever happens, a Higher Power is on your side and you will survive.

Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.

Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything.

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to women as well as men.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

I'm an agnosto-theist. I cross myself on airplanes. I pray when I'm sick. When you're sick I'll keep you in my thoughts; when I'm sick, I'm entreating a higher power.

I have no will power when it comes to sweets. I have a sweet tooth.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

I always knew there was power in the earth, but it must be much stronger than I imagined to resist such a relentless foe, day after day, night after night, year after year.

Have you slept yet?' 'Sure. I took a power nap on the way over.' 'Didn't you drive there?' 'Yeah. Other drviers kept waking me up. Car horns should be illegal.' - Charley & Cookie

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

Now is the time to take back your energy, your power, and your peace.

Owning our power means claiming the credibility and uniqueness of our own humanity.

I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.

Here's where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.

Don't be afraid of your own power.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's