Power Quotes

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.

Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games.

It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.

The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can’t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

You are the only one who creates in your experience - no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the power of your thought.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.

…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power.

Behind the panic: financial warfare over future of global bank power

I am walking proof of the power of prayer.

Anger without power is folly.

The real goal of Christianity is not to create a religion about God, but that we would actually know Him, experiencing firsthand the wonders and power of His incomparable life.

We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.

Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.

Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.

If you lead a sloppy life, if you indulge in your emotions, if you're always upset, freaked out, stressful, and not happy, you are wasting power and your power level will get very low.

When we use power to cause someone else not to succeed so that we can succeed, it slows our vibratory frequency. It slows us down. When we slow down we experience unhappiness.

An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.

Grace is power as well as pardon.

When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.

I believe in the power of one.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I regret the fact that Saddam [Hussein] didn't have weapons of mass destruction that we thought. I don't regret removing him from power.

I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease!

Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

We do have the power to save one another...

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.