What Is Power Quotes

He was a god of rock. He nearly solved all the world's problems with nothing but power chords and anguished cries into a microphone.

Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.

Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

I think there's a lot of power in admitting that you don't know everything.

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

I understand the power of the internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father.

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

What matters most is recognition that 'I have my own will. I have my own agency. I have the power within myself to control what I do.'

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

He does not seek power - yet people follow him.

Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.

Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.

We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.

Even if you feel all right, tell the actors you don't have full power, and they will help you.

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.

The miraculous power of the healing we create through crisis can be as stunning as looking at the sun.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it.

Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings.

I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power.

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

When a quiet introvert talks, heads turn, and that's power.

The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

I need somebody with staying power who will make me go weak in the knees.