Power Quotes

Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don’t got is power.

One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]

The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.

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You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.

Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.

Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.

Every good thing depends on getting and keeping the power of the Holy Ghost in our lives. Everything depends on that.

Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself.

China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

I'm in a position where - I mean, not a lot of people are in a very fortunate position - where I kind of have the power to choose what I want to do in a way.

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.

Love is the greatest healing power I know. Love can heal even the deepest and most painful memories because love brings the light of understanding to the darkest corners of our hearts and minds.

The more you connect to the Power within you, the more you can be free in all areas of your life.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.

Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

Fear is trusting in your own power.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.

Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.

In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.