What Is Power Quotes

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.

Birth is the epicenter of women's power

One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.

In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.

We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.

The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

A bright smile has the strongest electrifying power to lift up the sagging morale and light up a depressed face effortlessly and immediately.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.

The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.

Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives.

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

The power of publicity is more important than advertising.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

Peace the offspring is of Power.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.