Power Quotes

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of h...

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is th...

Power, of course. The primitive fear of being controlled. It does not matter whether it is an invasi...

For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the vi...

So, once again, back to the question - just what IS power?Is it perhaps no more than a deadly mutati...

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history...

I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my fai...

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind,...

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic socie...

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communicati...

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the ...

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration,...

Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innov...

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership o...

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and grovelling submission to those you can't. Once having s...

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which...

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the w...

I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and whi...

He [Eugène Rougon] believed exclusively in himself; where another saw reasons, Rougon possessed conv...

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaini...

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to re...

Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide ...

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression...

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it,...

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off t...

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, the...

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard...

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate rel...

The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But w...

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning o...

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise ...

We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined t...

Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that w...

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealt...

All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.

What he had loved in Marthe were those evenings when they would walk into the movie theater and men'...

My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit who reveals himself...

When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would...

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from wh...

Like every other good thing in thisworld, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, howe...

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely f...

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material po...

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

People don’t talk about mercy very much these days—it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it ...

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exe...

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is ...

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of out...

One is always a good master when one isn’t the master

Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluste...

We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, a...

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and t...

Observe this fact: in the history of mankind, every ruler who has lacked personal greatness has been...

The more powerful the powerful appear the more invisible they become, said Armando. This used to wor...

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held...

Asking for help with shame

An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search fo...

Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers....

Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, te...

There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Powe...

Your blessings are very important to melt down the stony hearts.

Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.

Let everyone evolve fast and understand humanity. Let the heart of stones be converted into heart of...

Mindfulness and compassion can give you the power, illumination, love, and wisdom to draw higher for...

Is it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?’‘Oh it will, sir; there’s no denyi...

The media—stenographers to power.

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is ...

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovere...

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I...

God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your hu...

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I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginn...

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I...

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die ...

One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will eme...

Three generations before I was the one meant for the necklace. I saw him when I was three years old,...

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...