Power Quotes
Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.
If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.
Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.
The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.
How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?
When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.
When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.
The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.
There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.
The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.
The Williams sisters, they have this power. They have this ability to come back from nowhere.
People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.
Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.
Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.
I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.
It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.
In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.
Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.
The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.
Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power.
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... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.
I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.
The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming from a deep, genuine well within each person.
