What Is Power Quotes

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

We are all powerless as children, and money looms so powerfully... we don't grow up to claim our financial power until we look money directly in the eye, face our fears, and claim that power back.

There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened.

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.

Theres a real power in heels and a good dress.

We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.

Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.

But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

The incredible processing power of Tegra X1 enables us to bring Doom 3: BFG to Android and we’re excited by the possibilities that GRID is bringing to gaming.

There is only one way to come out of that dark place, and that is through the power of prayer.

Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.

When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.

Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it.

To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately.

The power which is in you, is in the things around you, and when you begin to move forward by faith, the things will arrange themselves for your advantage.

I have no limitations. Unlimited power is mine within that which is universal.

I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

The way to establish a relationship with Spirit and access the power of this creating principle is to continuously contemplate yourself as being surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce.

Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?