Power Quotes

That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

You're never too young or too old to make your own kind of mark in your own kind of time. You're never the wrong age to release the power within you to create the life you deserve.

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.

The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle.

Believe in the power of prayer - it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous.

Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Knowledge is not power unless it is used.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

We need fair rules of the road, so big corporations can't use their power to gain unfair advantages.

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll lose the essence of the country.

The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.

If we recognize the interconnectedness of the changes our planet needs, we become true solutionaries and our united power is unparalleled.

I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm going to kill you and you're just going to kneel down to me because I'm the law.

There is so much power in being able to look comfortable in a conference room, and I’m not sure dudes in suits are used to seeing women do that.

More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention.

A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

Choice is our point of power.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

The New York Times claims that they publish all the news that's fit to print but what they really do is print all the news that supports their agenda. What they are is the power base of the left.

If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

We are asking the wrong question. The issue is not who should be trusted with all the power of the Presidency. Instead, we must ask how much power any candidate can be trusted with.

Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

Women are rising. It's going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

I won't go back and live in the sea again.

I want to live like a man.