Power Quotes

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and voca...

I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with to...

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we...

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished b...

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for g...

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of ...

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, t...

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centur...

The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.

And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes...

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wi...

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon ...

Every witch or wizard with a wand has held in his or her hands more power than we will ever know. Wi...

My question is whether America can overcome the fatal arrogance of power.

And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third A...

Grief is a hone to a hard mind.

But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his ...

Then sudden Felagund there swayingSang in answer a song of staying,Resisting, battling against power...

To man has been given the grief, often, of seeing his gods overthrown and his altars crumbling; but ...

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still tryi...

There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved...

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in ...

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals wh...

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be lia...

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm the...

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?""Yes, I am fond of history.""I...

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from ...

You've got some power," Jakkin said. "One hug—and the lights go out!

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...

To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the b...

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section t...

I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more ...

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not nece...

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve...

Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the peop...

But this aura of an artificial menace was still necessary to conceal that they [Presidents] were no ...

Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hy...

But what becomes of the divinity when it reveals itself in icons, when it is multiplied in simulacra...

The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the ...

Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by...

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's...

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

You see what I am driving at. The mentally handicapped do not have a consciousness of power. Because...

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...

To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requi...

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of be...

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market pri...

Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater ...

Being idolized and being torn down felt oddly similar. They both made me feel alone.Friendship and t...

But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years ...

I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter ...

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give...

All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serve...

But… all I said was that I was scared." After what you got to experience? That's smart, kid," I said...

Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We...

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size...

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, sin...

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all...

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the nar...

Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of h...

I chiefly concern myself with those who seldom get a hearing, & I don't feel it is incumbent on me t...

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been m...

In this world, family is the final, most elemental unit of power. A small group, helplessly bound to...

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A sla...

In this world, family is the final, most elemental unit of power. A small group, helplessly bound to...

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A sla...

All force strives forward to work far and wideTo live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked...

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at hi...

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use...

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mank...

But was you not afraid, good sir, when you see him come with his club?""It is my duty," said he, "to...

The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it...

The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the ...

I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immen...

Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corp...

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power t...

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make...

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, ha...

After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily ...

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that ...

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...

THAT'S WHAT POWERFUL MEN DO TO THIS COUNTRY - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, SEXY, BREATHLESS COUNTRY, AND POWERF...

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mo...

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.