Power Quotes

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero...

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor,...

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Why do you write strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question.

Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch....

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerf...

In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkne...

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, whic...

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake...

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think ...

I don't ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don't have the power, ...

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about gre...

The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the face...

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much g...

A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered int...

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is t...

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life....

[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dar...

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breast...

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brou...

If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simpl...

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like ...

In China the egalitarian movement came not just from Zhu's vision, but also the Taoist ideas of bala...

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every societ...

I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked ...

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or ...

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be ...

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

The Master doesn't try to be powerful;thus he is truly powerful.The ordinary man keeps reaching for ...

Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path...

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed...

Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’r...

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern...

Patience and gentleness is power.

Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power.

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...