Power Quotes

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy.

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

Words are real. Even if you can't see them, or hold them. Once you send them out in the world, they have power. Never speak words you don't mean.

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.

I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.

Love has the power to change everything.

The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

The power of HEART is much stronger than the power of MIND to empower our life.

Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.

The prayer of faith is the only kind that is real prayer, and it is trust in God with full acknowledgment of God's power and love.

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

the possession of power brings on madness.

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

Being fit helps me improve my concentration, my will power and even my determination.

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.

I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it.

I'm not taking power. I'm catalyzing systemic change.

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. . . .

I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Power should answer by action, not by speech.

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.

People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.

We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning.

Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008.

If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.