Power Quotes

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

Imagination is an abuse of power.

The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.

The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy to become the home of God himself.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

The European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

The real leader holds the power, not just the position.

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.

Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.

The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.

The conscience of a people is their power.

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight.

As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.

In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.

By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.

Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for growth.

One of the things that I'm really concerned about is that people who don't have power are not priorities for people in public life. Maybe it's always been that way, but I see it more starkly now.

A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.

To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.

Power is as power does.

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.