Power Quotes

The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army is. But still, it can't escape the distribution of power in the world.

He also knows the power of word.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.

Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.

You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.

[Leftists] have all these embeds in their bureaucracy and in the judiciary. So even when they lose elections they have ample positions of power occupied by career invisibles.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Love is a great power, and such a strange power.

Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.

Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)

The Truth-power must be brought down from above into that state of peace, and this higher power - Parashakti - will directly guide the vehicle - ādhāra - and transform it.

It was always the power of love that pulled us through, and it was the power of laughter that kept us from falling apart.

The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

The main problem with American power is not that it is American... No, the main problem with American power is the power itself. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.

We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.

I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.

When you fall for the one that owns you, she’ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.

You're my present and my future Sadie, I will use whatever power I have to make you happy.

Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

I really believe in the power of music.

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.

Women move through the world never knowing their power.

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.

Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.

I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail.

Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power.

The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.

Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.

The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.