What Is Power Quotes

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

My interest is in power. How power works.

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.

...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.

The only power that the critical voice has is the power that you give it.

Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it.

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.

If the guy has a gun, that's the power. He doesn't need to wave the gun; he just needs to point the gun in a very relaxed fashion.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

You've got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There's no countervailing power.

The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

Dreams don't "come true". Dreams get "made true". You have the power to get up, execute and make beautiful results happen, day by valuable day.

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.

Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.

The more you stop giving power to your excuses, the more you'll send power to your dreams.

Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.

The more fears we walk through, the more power we reclaim.

There's a real power in collaboration. I've found that in collaborating while making art, it takes you to a place that you wouldn't necessarily have the confidence to go on your own.

There's more power in the simpler things, I think.

Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on.

Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water?

Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.

All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.

Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.