What Is Power Quotes

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.

The constitution is very clear as to how and when the president hands over power. He can only hand power over to an elected successor.

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.

As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

The power of saying no is so much more than the power of saying yes.

Sometimes love is so intense that it turns into this gray area that borders on hate. That's what happens when the people you love have that type of power over you.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

I don't have a power nap when I have training. I take it so I am fresh again for the next session.

I'm a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A changeup which sinks down and away from lefties and I can also throw for strikes.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.]

Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.

Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

Think about everything that you hear, feel everything that you see, love everything that is worthy of love.

Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.

I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

I don't like to power trip, but when you're a boss you have to fight for certain things.

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

The world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

One cannot hold power and not use it.

Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. How important it is, then, that one of our fundamental teachings to our children is how to pray.

When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it is not used to harm people.

True power is stillness within motion.

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.