Power Quotes

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any kno...

The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not...

I'm struck by the difficulty I had in formulating it. When I think back now, I ask myself what else ...

Where there is power, there is resistance.

[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what con...

We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 1...

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful tha...

I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and...

They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indiffe...

I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...

There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life ...

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of ...

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and g...

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And ...

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of relig...

Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the app...

Men have the power in everything: journalism, acting, direction; in banks, finances, schools. All th...

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of s...

The true meaning of the 'samurai' is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.

A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and pol...

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...

When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progres...

We are all here, all the powers of the Ginen lives for all the centuries that they have been in exis...

They are me, these women. They are the ones who taught me to see; I taught me to see. They, we, are ...

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and...

Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin...

People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

On Andrew Jackson: "His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reac...

There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse...

Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarcha...

Is power like the vis viva and the quantite d’avancement? That is, is it conserved by the universe, ...

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl...

She was the storm, she was the lightning...

Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, s...

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in ou...

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them togethe...

Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to ta...

When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achi...

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to re...

You can't trust anybody with power.

Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and ter...

But confining myself more to the particular, I say that a prince may be seen happy to-day and ruined...

For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will al...

Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is...

I conclude therefore that, fortune being changeful and mankind steadfast in their ways, so long as t...

Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and...

For this reason a prince ought to take care that he never lets anything slip from his lips that is n...

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil...

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him fe...

The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that alth...

Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for th...

Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Up...

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decl...

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of ou...

I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," ...

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

At its root, the logic is that of the Grand Inquisitor, who bitterly assailed Christ for offering pe...

Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of ch...

What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the me...

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

There is a sacred calling on your life, and the question is: Will you spend your life flittering and...

What I find powerful is a person withthe confidence to be her own self.

If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people ...

If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those mo...

I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any ...

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing t...

What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock ...

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were sa...

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and foreve...

They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power.

The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if yo...

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can ch...

Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for fu...

In my experience, influence is power.

The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.

Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with ...

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was domi...

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the pl...

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in t...

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dre...

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...

If power is the only important thing, then Frodo loses against Sauron. Hell, if power’s the only imp...

Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds i...

A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retalia...

I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, be...

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story betwe...

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the po...

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, acc...