Power Quotes

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest com...

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, beco...

In precisely the same way the specialty of government is not to obey, but to enforce obedience. And ...

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers...

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with,...

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transf...

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

Let us fool ourselves no longer. At the very moment Western nations, threw off the ancient regime of...

You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really ca...

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or ful...

Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking ...

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cu...

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another pe...

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desi...

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the sam...

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Rev...

Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.

Many a small man is considered good while he remains small, but let power come to him, and he become...

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to...

In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazar...

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal re...

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestin...

In so-called primitive societies there are two words for power, mana and taboo: the power which crea...

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe...

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe...

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and ...

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social medi...

When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to th...

A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her frien...

Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you...

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent ...

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Many people in this country who want to see us the minority, and who don’t want to see us taking too...

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion o...

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's ...

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him exce...

One morning indeed, I felt a sudden misgiving that she not only had left the house but had gone for ...

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly al...

Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even...

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. P...

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's somethin...

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it...

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you ...

Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.I thin...

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's somethin...

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only th...

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Whenever the balance of power was unequal, there was a driver and a driven. Power was the lethal vic...

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

He pulled back on the bridle, stopping in disbelief. “Your love for him has damaged your senses.”“An...

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of po...

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every he...

The  thought system which dominates our culture is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing thos...

Over the years we seem to have become habituated, even addicted, to the notion of radical threat, th...

Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we ha...

Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a ha...

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness...

On the night of New Year’s Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year’s resolution for the men who run t...

But what help is it to us to look into the constellation of truth? We look into the danger and see t...

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impracti...

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

We can all get more together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power. Power is the abil...

Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living thi...

Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For i...

I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more ...

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shorew...

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

It is easier to call the storm from the empty sky than to manipulate the heart of a man; and soon, i...

England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine...

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry,...

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most power...

All empires fall, eventually.” “But why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opp...

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they ...

Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and hu...

Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and hu...

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating...

... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of phy...

I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from mo...

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice...

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see,...

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.

Power to the peaceful!

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that ...

If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fam...

Those who have come into Formula One without experiencing cars devoid of electronic aids will find i...

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the...

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed wi...