1000 Best Power Quotes

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. Bertrand Russell

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. Robert Henri

By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints. Ben Shapiro

This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions. Hillary Clinton

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. William Plomer

I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example. Geri Halliwell

I just don't believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I've based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It's something that I've always exploited - with good results. Hugh Grant

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. W. H. Murray

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. Martin Van Buren

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward. Kenny Loggins

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself. Allen Klein

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. George Orwell

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company. Zoe Saldana

In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified. Carlo Rubbia

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. Thomas Hobbes

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. Malcolm X

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

If bad and inexperienced politicians control power in Nigeria, my wealth may turn into poverty, and I am not ready to become a poor man. Aliko Dangote

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. John Stuart Mill

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. Sitting Bull

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. John Jay

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. Stanley Kubrick

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? Christopher Marlowe

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed. J. G. Ballard

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo

I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette. David Maisel

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. Ronald Reagan

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. Eleanor Roosevelt

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other. Anita Hill

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. Morihei Ueshiba

Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value. Megan Smith

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. Harvey Fierstein

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Robert A. Heinlein

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. Mahatma Gandhi

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen

Whoever is new to power is always harsh. Aeschylus

I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power. Matt Bevin

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. Aristotle

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations. Sharon Salzberg

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress. Caleb Cushing

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently. Gary Zukav

If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist. Patch Adams

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. Sylvester Stallone

The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity. Mary Gaitskill

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age. Rebecca MacKinnon

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality. Khaleda Zia

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead. Tom Ridge

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. Peace Pilgrim

Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power. Whitney Wolfe

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley

You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves. Joel Parkinson

Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place. Naveen Jain

I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to. Billy Graham

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. James Buchan

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless. Paul Harris

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. Chanakya

All dogs can become aggressive, but the difference between an aggressive Chihuahua and an aggressive pit bull is that the pit bull can do more damage. That's why it's important to make sure you are a hundred percent ready for the responsibility if you own a 'power' breed, like a pit bull, German shepherd, or Rottweiler. Cesar Millan


Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. Arthur Schopenhauer

'Game of Thrones,' people say that it's a fantasy series, but it's a hell of a lot more than that. It attracts the so-called geeks and nerds, and God bless them, they're wonderful for getting right into the show. But primarily it's about family; it's power and betrayal and jealousy. It's all those wonderful things that a fantastic drama is about. Liam Cunningham

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. Henry A. Wallace

I believe the gun has no power at all. Malala Yousafzai

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude. Bart Starr

I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power. George Harrison

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. A. N. Wilson

A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water. Leslie Dewan

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. Alexander Hamilton

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. Eric Hoffer

The blockchain symbolizes a shift in power from the centers to the edges of the networks. William Mougayar

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. Norman Vincent Peale

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. Alfred Marshall

The measure of a man is what he does with power. Plato

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. Pierre Corneille

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now. Oprah Winfrey

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Epictetus

For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering. Anohni

Jupiter is so big and its gravitational pull so strong that man would find it difficult to move about on the surface. The answer is to whittle it down to proper size with terrajets and nuclear power, using the debris to increase the size of Jupiter's moons so they, too, can be colonized. Fritz Zwicky

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts. Edward Brooke

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. Eric Hoffer

I believe in the power of weakness. Pat Buckley

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous. Ulrich Beck

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. John Adams

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. F. Scott Fitzgerald

I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community. Howard Schultz

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. George Orwell

'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away. Saul Alinsky

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. Muhammad Ali

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power. Millard Fillmore

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us. Frederick William Faber

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. Andrew Jackson

Character is power. Booker T. Washington

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. Napoleon Bonaparte

In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state. Katha Pollitt

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. Alfred A. Montapert

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power. Seth Berkley

I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused. Terry Bradshaw

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. Frank Lloyd Wright

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. Thomas Paine

In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curable, but they're very, very highly treatable, and early information is power. The only thing - literally the only thing - that is different is the stigma. And we have to overcome it, because it is now the only reason people are dying. David Furnish

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along. Richard Armitage

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. William Pitt

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. Thurgood Marshall

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. A. J. P. Taylor

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing. Catherine the Great

I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God. Olivia Hussey

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness. Hope Solo

There can be nothing without love. No money, no power. Love is very important. When you wake up in the morning, you need to know that somebody else is waking up, thinking of you. Giorgio Armani

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations. Hideki Tojo

We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources. Vladimir Putin

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant. Simon Cowell

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. Doris Humphrey

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. Phaedrus

Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act. John Lewis

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. Thomas Jefferson


There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources. Bill McKibben

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton

If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power? Evangeline Lilly

The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks... we're not asking you to invent new laws for us. We're asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books. Jesse Williams

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today! Joyce Meyer

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower. Gretchen Rubin

It's easier to blame the person with less power. Gloria Steinem

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Everett Dirksen

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. Malala Yousafzai

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems. Leroy Hood

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion. Sharon Salzberg

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain. Susan B. Anthony

If you're not religious, like me, how do you explain the transformational power that certain places have? They bring an incredible degree of attention to where you are and the passage of time. You're looking at every flower twitching, wondering if it's just the breeze or some magical pulse. Geoff Dyer

Everybody I meet who uses 'WhatsApp', I ask them a question: 'How did you hear about it?' And they say, 'My friends, my sister or my brother, somebody I know hounded me to install WhatsApp.' We think there is more power to the network when it grows organically. Jan Koum

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. Clint Eastwood

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. Friedrich Schiller

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. Thomas Carlyle

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. Samuel Smiles

Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music. LZ Granderson

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. Abigail Adams

I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses. Kevin Plank

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to. Emil Zatopek

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way. Malala Yousafzai

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom. Sandra Cisneros

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. Arnold J. Toynbee

The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power. Christian de Duve

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless. Vint Cerf

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future. Saul Alinsky

A cult is a religion with no political power. Tom Wolfe

I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone knows that monopoly power is bad for markets, that people are racially biased and that illness is unequally distributed by social class. Nicholas A. Christakis

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Eric Hoffer

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. Aung San Suu Kyi

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor. Allen Klein

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. Joan Didion

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. Booker T. Washington

Prayer is man's greatest power! W. Clement Stone

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. C. Wright Mills

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. Thomas Hobbes

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. Wendell Willkie

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. Aristotle

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. Saint Basil

Every reign must submit to a greater reign. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts. Bobby Seale

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. Alexander the Great

You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power. John Podhoretz

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. Alfred Lord Tennyson

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. Winston Churchill

Calmness is the cradle of power. Josiah Gilbert Holland

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. Bo Bennett

A king without power is an absurdity. James Monroe

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. Rita Mae Brown

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. Thomas Paine

The NRA is a true grass-roots organization, and the collective power of its membership is simply unparalleled. Thom Tillis

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way. Emmeline Pankhurst

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. Christopher Reeve

I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more. Christine Lagarde

Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else. Monica Bellucci

I'm keeping my power to myself and my glow. I'm not giving anybody my glow anymore. Jessica White

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future. Tarja Halonen

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. Andrew Young

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. Jonathan Swift

I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good. Kevin DeYoung

I am one who believes in the power of the people. I am inspired when I see people hit the streets, who challenge their elected officials, and are willing to stand up and fight. I encourage it. Maxine Waters

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. Elton John


Nothing external to you has any power over you. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you. Mary J. Blige

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done. Robert Downey, Jr.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. Wendell Phillips

I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic. Bryan Batt

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. Thomas Malthus

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. David Hume

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? Harry Shearer

Don't underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It's worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton. Dita Von Teese

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. Milton Friedman

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power. William McDonough

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. Peter Drucker

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. Lois Lowry

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. Oprah Winfrey

I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you. Rohit Shetty

Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you. Ellen G. White

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. Aldous Huxley

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. Ambrose Bierce

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Charlie Chaplin

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power. Harold Wilson

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. Marcus du Sautoy

Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power to change the very fabric of our civilisation. Ephraim Mirvis

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. Henry Ward Beecher

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song. Paul Epworth

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. George Washington

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. Oprah Winfrey

For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome. Cai Guo-Qiang

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. Sophie Swetchine

Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is. Jimmy Reid

Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future. Eric Schneiderman

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. Ludwig von Mises

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world. Vinoba Bhave

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. Marcus Aurelius

There is more power in unity than division. Emanuel Cleaver

I need quick, easy, and healthy meals that can power me through the day. I also try to eat locally grown and organic food as much as possible - it's the best for me and the environment. Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. William Henry Harrison

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. Marianne Williamson

I couldn't pedal a bike as a child, so I had a donkey instead. I loved the power and freedom it had. Lee Pearson

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. Li Ka-shing

An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power. Glenn Greenwald

I cured with the power that came through me. Black Elk

Color is a power which directly influences the soul. Wassily Kandinsky

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. Albert Einstein

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. Stendhal

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. Richard Dawkins

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Ayn Rand

No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives. Louise L. Hay

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives. Clint Eastwood

People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling. Alexandra Cassavetes

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. Robert Staughton Lynd

For me, education was power. Michelle Obama

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. Theodore Dreiser

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about. Tony Kushner

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. Theodor Adorno

There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure. Marianne Williamson

Knowledge and human power are synonymous. Francis Bacon

The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it. Yoko Ono

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power. Joshua Chamberlain

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me. Elon Musk

Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory. Roger Ebert

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will. Mitt Romney

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power. Julia Child

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. Meryl Streep

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. Joan Didion

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president. Tom Rice

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. Louisa May Alcott

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. Charles Stanley

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. Napoleon Bonaparte

Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue. Paul Kalanithi

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else. Mariska Hargitay

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us. Sheryl Lee

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. Michel Foucault


You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow. Jack Black

The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong. James Monroe

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works. Ken Blanchard

Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.' Jay-Z

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power. Orison Swett Marden

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all. Pericles

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. James Madison

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, consciencee, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. Stephen Covey

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that. Vladimir Putin

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations. Joseph Pulitzer

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position. Ezra Taft Benson

Profitability, growth, and safeguards against existential risks are crucial to strengthening a company's long-term prospects. But if these three factors constitute a company's 'hard power,' firms also need 'soft power': public trust and acceptance, won by fulfilling a company's social responsibility. Klaus Schwab

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. Martin Buber

The point of power is always in the present moment. Louise L. Hay

Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing - at least sometimes - without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles. Rebecca MacKinnon

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. Atifete Jahjaga

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all. Annie Jump Cannon

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. Barack Obama

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it. Lincoln Steffens

I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated in one place, it tends to get abused, so checks and balances are always needed. Dean Ornish

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity. Olusegun Obasanjo

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard

There is an incredible renewable energy resource off both coasts of this country - wind and tidal energy that can power our economy, create good paying jobs and reduce greenhouse gas pollution. Chellie Pingree

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions. C. Wright Mills

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power. Pope Francis

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital. Mark Hyman

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state. Max Weber

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. Mike Ditka

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed. Richard Jefferies

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts. Tori Amos

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. Winston Churchill

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. Oprah Winfrey

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. Pierre Corneille

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time. Albert Pujols

The coronation is a symbol of power, but it's not a symbol for us the people. It's a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes back thousands of years. Claire Foy

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world. J. William Fulbright

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available. Tim Berners-Lee

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. Baruch Spinoza

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. Andrew Jackson

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. Jose Saramago

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. Hannah Arendt

We work to create a new wave of feminism that is more inclusive. I want others to feel equal. It's so great to see women in positions of power, which is why other artists, such as Marilyn Minter, are so inspirational to me. Petra Collins

If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen. Sylvia Plath

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. Karl Popper

The law has no power over heroes. Charlotte Lennox

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. John W. Gardner

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. Anthony J. D'Angelo

Power is dangerous unless you have humility. Richard J. Daley

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. Jules Verne

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias. Loretta Lynch

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange. Jon Batiste

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged. Jessica Valenti

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. Muhammad Iqbal

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God. Frederick William Faber

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing. Sophia Amoruso

I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith. Saint Patrick

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed. Jackie Kennedy

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! Friedrich Nietzsche

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. John Muir

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again. Paul Kagame

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges. Buenaventura Durruti

Politics is not about power. Paul Wellstone

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. James A. Baldwin

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous. David J. C. MacKay


I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God. Pele

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community. Umberto Eco

Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity. Said Nursi

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy. Nas

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly. David Souter

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. Katharine Graham

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. George Washington

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it. Edwin Land

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck

In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself. Vincent Nichols

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. Rumi

The way to have power is to take it. Boss Tweed

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential. Denise Morrison

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. Blaise Pascal

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. Aristotle

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics. Robin S. Sharma

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos. Jackie Gleason

Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change. Ramez Naam

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. George Eliot

A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage. Elon Musk

The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people. Lysander Spooner

I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say. Rozonda Thomas

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant. Joe Barton

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. Neville Chamberlain

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. Henry George

The only real power comes out of a long rifle. Joseph Stalin

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society. Paulo Freire

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. Alexander Graham Bell

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything. David Ogilvy

I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment. Doris Kearns Goodwin

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. Benjamin Disraeli

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent. Emmeline Pankhurst

He who has great power should use it lightly. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes. James Dyson

The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land. Sabine Baring-Gould

Some day sciencee may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. Henry Adams

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it. Maxine Waters

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent. Mark Zuckerberg

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. Blaise Pascal

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy. Dan Webster

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small. Joan Baez

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. Andrew Jackson

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson

What's so lovely about Wonder Woman is yes, she has the strength and power of a goddess, but she has the heart and mind of a human. So I play her as I think a woman like me would act in the situations she's going through. You treat her as a normal woman who happens to be fantastic and almighty. Gal Gadot

Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible. William Godwin

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. John Adams

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. Benazir Bhutto

The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians. Shashi Tharoor

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

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today. Ralph Merkle

Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important. Gene Simmons

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. Tom Hanks

I like conflicts. I love competition. I like discovering things for myself. It's a childlike characteristic, actually. But that gives you a certain amount of power, and people are intimidated by that. Grace Jones

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. Mary Daly

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential. Robert Winston

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power. John Wycliffe

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of consciencee later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. Friedrich Nietzsche


Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path. Kevyn Aucoin

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

YouTube has always been a diary for me. I'm here to share what I do, share my life, and if people want to watch, more power to them. But regardless of my intention, if people are looking at what I do and am treating it like I'm a role model, it doesn't matter whether or not I want to be. Tyler Oakley

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself. W. Clement Stone

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act. Barack Obama

There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selflessness toward spiritual goals. The power of God working through such channels will bring unimaginable blessings to all concerned. Joseph B. Wirthlin

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship? Peter Diamandis

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. Marsha Sinetar

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest. Jane Goodall

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. Hannah Arendt

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us. Daniel Goleman

There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. John Lindsay

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. Gloria Steinem

The need for reflection and restraint of power is what led Louis Freeh to order that all new agent classes visit the Holocaust Museum here in Washington so they could see and feel and hear in a palpable way the consequences of abuse of power on a massive, almost unimaginable scale. James Comey

Influence is the new power - if you have influence, you can create a brand. Michelle Phan

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients. Alan Keyes

I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself. Miranda Kerr

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world. Gordon Brown

Thanks to Hillary Clinton, Iran is now the dominant Islamic power in the Middle East, and on the road to nuclear weapons. Hillary Clinton's support for violent regime change in Syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen - while giving ISIS a launching pad for terrorism against the West. Donald Trump

The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent. Julian Assange

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. Frederick the Great

The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power. Orison Swett Marden

People have the power to redeem the work of fools. Patti Smith

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. Richard Dawkins

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. William James

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. Napoleon Bonaparte

A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power's an aphrodisiac. Curtis Jackson

A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens. Dambisa Moyo

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. Michael Burgess

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear. Bob Morley

The eye sees what it brings the power to see. Thomas Carlyle

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. Alice Walker

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? W. E. B. Du Bois

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James Madison

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. Anne Lamott

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy. Dada Vaswani

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. Edward Abbey

The greatest power is not money power, but political power. Walter Annenberg

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. Orville Wright

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come. Bob Dylan

Anyone in a position of power is either corrupt or assumed to be corrupt, and the assumption of corruption is as bad as the reality of it. Stanley A. McChrystal

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. Nikola Tesla

The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore. Angela Ahrendts

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? Mary Wollstonecraft

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. Bernard Baruch

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines. Nikola Tesla

Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you. Orison Swett Marden

It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power. Ryan Reynolds

God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely. Joyce Meyer

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. Thomas Fuller

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. Toni Morrison

A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it's not that at all. It is about power for the female left. And they have this, I think, ridiculous idea that American women are oppressed by the patriarchy and we need laws and government to solve our problems for us. Phyllis Schlafly

Excessive fear is always powerless. Aeschylus

We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. But there was a time, not all that long ago, in the age before electricity, when night brought total darkness - and with it, a not-so-small amount of terror. We get a sense of this when we go camping or when there's a power outage, and our fear of the darkness is primal. Jake Halpern

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments. Gordon B. Hinckley

Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one. Ellen G. White

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. John F. Kennedy

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. William Wordsworth


The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. Charles de Gaulle

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. Kofi Annan

The greatest power is often simple patience. E. Joseph Cossman

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not. George Lucas

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor E. Frankl

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. Miguel de Cervantes

The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans. Cheryl Mills

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. Denis Diderot

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

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. James Naismith

Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential. Leslie Dewan

The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see. Alice Paul

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power. Joss Whedon

If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the very center of the federal city. The White House and the Supreme Court are set about us, satellites to the supreme power of the people expressed in the legislative authority of Congress. Cathy McMorris Rodgers

I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people. Heather Watts

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community. Adam Schiff

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. John F. Kennedy

Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted and surrendered seeker knows that belief is dynamic power, and he has this power as his very own. Sri Chinmoy

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand. Louise Slaughter

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. Voltaire

If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant. Cesare Beccaria

Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that's church, Allah, or any sort of higher being - they all have a humbleness. BJ the Chicago Kid

Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power. J. B. Pritzker

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit. Andrew Jackson

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference. Kanye West

Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power. Sander Levin

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain

Power is the great aphrodisiac. Henry Kissinger

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. Herbert Hoover

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. Malcolm X

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. Malcolm X

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. John Greenleaf Whittier

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. Charles de Montesquieu

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. Tony Robbins

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. Eckhart Tolle

Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay. Rollo May

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such. Ellen Key

You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that. Michael Palmer

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. Huey Newton

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it. Kristin Armstrong

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen. Pete Carroll

People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test. Linda Blair

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused. Aaron Swartz

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. Epicurus

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. Douglas Hyde

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits. Henry Giroux

The blessings of the priesthood are available to every righteous man and woman. We may all receive the Holy Ghost, obtain personal revelation, and be endowed in the temple, from which we emerge 'armed' with power. Sheri L. Dew

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance. Max Weber

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. Mary Daly

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. Barbara De Angelis

We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way. Les Brown


Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both overestimate the other's power - and underestimate their own. Deborah Tannen

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. James Madison

I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it. Joan Collins

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. J. K. Rowling

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. Rene Descartes

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers. Christopher Lee

When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalist is to confront those who are abusing power. Jorge Ramos

As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is so cool, I can transform the earth and I can produce all this wealth. But we're blinded by our success in a naive way. There's more to life, actually, and I think the sustainability issue is also helpful in reminding us about that. Tino Sehgal

Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it. Bruce Lipton

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. Voltaire

The time for invisible boundaries that guard the 'purity' of gaming as a niche subculture is over. The violent macho power fantasy will no longer define what gaming is all about. Anita Sarkeesian

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. Isabel Allende

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power. Rebecca MacKinnon

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.' Gloria Steinem

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The power dynamic that exists in venture capital is despicably unfair. The gap of influence between male venture capitalists and female entrepreneurs is frightening, and I hate that my behavior played a role in perpetrating a gender-hostile environment. Justin Caldbeck

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork. James Prescott Joule

Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer. Nick Rahall

I don't believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable. Katy Perry

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. Friedrich Nietzsche

It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches. Bing Gordon

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. Benjamin Disraeli

Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not. Kara Walker

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. Plato

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. John Ray

Force always attracts men of low morality. Albert Einstein

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good. Thomas Hooker

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences. Parker Palmer

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. Thomas Hobbes

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. Samuel Johnson

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power. Pierre Omidyar

It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley. Jason Lewis

A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of. Zendaya

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. Alexis Carrel

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. Abraham Lincoln

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. Madame de Stael

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life. Tyler Perry

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this? John Muir

Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership. Zbigniew Brzezinski

We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions. Joseph Pulitzer

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. Ayrton Senna

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking. Agnes de Mille

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world. Yoko Ono

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time. Jenny Mollen

If even in sciencee there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciencees: truth lies in power. Imre Lakatos

What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another. Pierre Omidyar

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard Bach

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. Salvador Dali

If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life. Stephen Bannon

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. William Gaddis

I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky. Taylor Wilson

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. Honore de Balzac

We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game. Young Thug

What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their sciencee. Their technology. Oriana Fallaci

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. Noam Chomsky

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well. Margaret J. Wheatley

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. Origen


If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. James A. Garfield

I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought. Neil deGrasse Tyson

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve. Jennifer Aniston

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. Ani DiFranco

Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all. Billy Crystal

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests. Noam Chomsky

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is. Jill Scott

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them. Ramana Maharshi

Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give? Orison Swett Marden

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. Henry Kissinger

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has. Jacki Weaver

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. Eric Sevareid

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. Dean Koontz

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. Irving Berlin

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. Robert Frost

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands sciencee and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. Carl Sagan

Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be. Callie Thorne

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts. Tavis Smiley

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present. Eckhart Tolle

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down. Bob Marley

Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation. David A. Bednar

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. Alice Walker

The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility. Nicolas Cage

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. Steven Wright

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better. Lawrence M. Krauss

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. Groucho Marx

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. Stokely Carmichael

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority. John Roberts

Power without abuse loses its charm. Paul Valery

Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up. Helen Thomas

Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat. Guy Fieri

Words, without power, is mere philosophy. Muhammad Iqbal

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. Unknown

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. Albert Camus

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. Ice Cube

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. Robert Kennedy

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies. Nikola Tesla

The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible. Steve Stockman

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power. Sandra Cisneros

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. Bruce Lee

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. Thomas Jefferson

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself. Kathe Kollwitz

I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness. William Godwin

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation. Bobby Seale

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. Salvador Dali

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that. Gilbert Baker

The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power. Robert Zubrin

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free. Nathan Myhrvold

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. Angelina Grimke

As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power. Robert Green Ingersoll

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world. Warren Farrell

The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame. Viola Davis

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say. Jonathan Sacks

We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down... I'm not going to go anywhere. Maxine Waters

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Barbara Corcoran

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. P. J. O'Rourke

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic. Robert Atkins

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth. Chanakya

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere. Nawal El Saadawi

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. Colin Powell

To live happily is an inward power of the soul. Marcus Aurelius

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. C. S. Lewis

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent. Isaac Newton


All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory. F. Sionil Jose

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go . Evita Peron

Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change. Muhammad Yunus

Power is paradoxical. Friedrich Durrenmatt

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. Matt Taibbi

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. George A. Sheehan

The power of the living God is here on the earth. The Priesthood is here. Heber J. Grant

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Ronald Reagan

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

I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison. Benazir Bhutto

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. Julius Caesar

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand. Tiberius

We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards. Warren Farrell

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire

Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible. Rosa Luxemburg

We need women who are devoted to shepherding God's children along the covenant path toward exaltation; women who know how to receive personal revelation, who understand the power and peace of the temple endowment; women who know how to call upon the powers of heaven to protect and strengthen children and families; women who teach fearlessly. Russell M. Nelson

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. Thomas Jefferson

Power and speed be hands and feet. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence. Henry Cabot Lodge

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

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. John Adams

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart. Ed Koch

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. Eleonora Duse

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere. Benjamin F. Wade

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide. Charles R. Swindoll

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Marilyn French

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. Philip Zimbardo

I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women. Nancy Pelosi

The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth. Michael Leunig

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. Daniel Webster

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. William Glasser

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. Hannah Arendt

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. Franklin Pierce

The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?' Billy Graham

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. William Pitt

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects. F. Sionil Jose

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power in America today is control of the means of communication. Theodore White

We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power, for only when we Han are in control politically do we have a nation. Sun Yat-sen

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. Oskar Schindler

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. Wilma Rudolph

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. Ayn Rand

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. Indira Gandhi

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people. Mark McKinnon

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power. Michael Leunig

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! Joseph Pulitzer

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' Abigail Adams

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command. Niccolo Machiavelli

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet. Bonnie Raitt

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. Samuel Gompers

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. John Quincy Adams

The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society. Coretta Scott King

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. Eckhart Tolle

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that. Carlos Castaneda

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. Sandra Day O'Connor

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. Robert Caro

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. Orison Swett Marden

Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, 'Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what's the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?' Jane Goodall

Order is power. Henri Frederic Amiel

Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large. Shari Arison

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. Jeremy Bentham

Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie. Pamela Meyer

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men. Gerrit Smith

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good. Orison Swett Marden

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. Charles Simmons

We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change. David Oyelowo

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation. Florence Kelley

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. Thomas Jefferson

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. Barney Frank

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. John Acton

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. John Stuart Mill

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power. Patricia Cornwell

While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good. Solomon Ortiz

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Iran has basically propped up Assad, who has waged an absolute war of horror against the Syrian people. And he has done anything he could to stay in power with the full support of the Iranians and including Iranian troops and Hezbollah from Lebanon, which are an Iranian proxy. Hillary Clinton

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. Charles de Gaulle

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. Abraham Lincoln

The Hulk was a unique character because of his strength and power. He doesn't have a costume like Spiderman or like Superman - The Hulk is more visual. His passion and his strength, that is what separates him from anything else. Lou Ferrigno

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me. Black Elk

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Peter Drucker

The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence. Gary Zukav

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace. Kate Chopin

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. Joel Osteen

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. Walter Benjamin

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. Robin Morgan

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Margaret Thatcher

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move. Ossie Davis

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Virginia Woolf

The soft power of sciencee has the potential to reshape global diplomacy. Ahmed Zewail

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. James Allen

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece. Orison Swett Marden

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. Howard Zinn

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Tom Clancy

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. Calvin Coolidge

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings. Keith Haring

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself. Anne Bronte

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Phillips Brooks

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. William James

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence. Dada Vaswani

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. Andrew Jackson

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool. Craig Bruce

As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not. Rodrigo Duterte


Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. George A. Smith

I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger. J. I. Packer

A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties. Evgeny Morozov

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it. Randeep Hooda

I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall. Mike May

The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Don Miguel Ruiz

Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look. Conrad Burns

Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself. Katherine McNamara

The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government. Jefferson Davis

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen. Queen Elizabeth II

The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people. Kailash Satyarthi

Infinite power just isn't very interesting, no matter what game you're playing. It's much more fun when you have a limited tool set to use against the odds. Markus Persson

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. George Washington

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. George Bernard Shaw

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. George Orwell

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. Ai Weiwei

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. Francis Thompson

I bet on my team to win every night because I love my team; I believe in my team. I did everything in my power every night to win that game. Pete Rose

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born. Malala Yousafzai

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. Ted Nugent

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. William Wordsworth

We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what sciencee tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist. Ramez Naam

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. Andrew Carnegie

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small. Eckhart Tolle

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. Fredrik Bajer

Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others. James E. Faust

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. Winston Churchill

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. Frederick Law Olmsted

It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere. Elon Musk

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. Thomas Jefferson

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. Henry David Thoreau

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? Orson F. Whitney

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. Henry A. Wallace

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control. Dario Fo

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. David Bailey

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it. Eckhart Tolle

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive. Eddie Izzard

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it. Sylvia Earle

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. James Madison

If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter. Michael Schumacher

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. Friedrich August von Hayek

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. Joseph Conrad

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. Denis Diderot

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous. Beyonce Knowles

Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself. Sun Tzu

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. Alan Watts

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking. Susan L. Taylor

The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect. Peter A. Levine

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. Friedrich Nietzsche

Liberalism has never been about establishing a universal standard. Liberalism is simply intellectual cover for those wanting to gain political power and increase the size of the state. Andrew Breitbart

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. Rene Descartes

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Thomas Malthus


The only power you have is the word no. Frances McDormand

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. Yehuda Berg

For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life. Jane McGonigal

To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired. Adam Grant

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate. Bryant H. McGill

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance. Benazir Bhutto

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century. Bjork

Today, billions of mobile devices with extraordinary power are uniting with advancements in robotics artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and so much more. Steve Mollenkopf

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power. Rutherford B. Hayes

A word after a word after a word is power. Margaret Atwood

This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will. John Quincy Adams

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. Peter Drucker

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will. Alexander Hamilton

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. James Madison

Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling. Shahid Kapoor

Power is not alluring to pure minds. Thomas Jefferson

We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential. Ryan Holiday

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. Honore de Balzac

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love. Ram Dass

Doing the right thing has power. Laura Linney

The power of the people and the power of reason are one. Georg Buchner

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back. Eli Whitney

The Court's legitimacy arises from the source of its authority - which is, of course, the Constitution - and is best preserved by adhering to decision methods that neither expand nor contract but legitimize the power of judicial review. Diane S. Sykes

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. Napoleon Hill

We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution. Fred Hampton

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. Joshua Chamberlain

The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at all costs. It demands mindlessness and unquestioned loyalty, resulting in boring people who have little ability to think for themselves or have an opposing viewpoint from those who have the most social power. Rosalind Wiseman

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. Honore de Balzac

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power. Carol P. Christ

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

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

On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents. Sania Mirza

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. Deborah Tannen

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience. Chad Hurley

I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones. Zendaya

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power. John Lewis Gaddis

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. Lord Acton

Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films. Vidya Balan

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. Don DeLillo

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens. Samuel Adams

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments. Andrew Jackson

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. Dwight D. Eisenhower

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person. Pope Francis

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. Ida Tarbell

The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes. Orison Swett Marden

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Mao Zedong

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology. Michel Foucault

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music. Stevie Wonder

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. Johnny Depp

The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power. Andy Biersack

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Patrick Henry

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now? Steve Jobs

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives. Albert Bandura

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power. Harry Browne

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. David Brin

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. Jim Morrison

Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon

There is a tendency to feature more actresses on covers, but I'm a big model lover. I grew up watching these models, and they gave me the wish, the need, to work in the fashion industry. I loved watching them - their beauty, the way they worked in front of the camera and that power of transformation, especially in the Seventies. Francois Nars

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. Tony Robbins

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us. Lady Gaga

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. George Orwell

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him. Gustav Stresemann

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. Louisa May Alcott

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive. Alice Waters

Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy. Nicole Scherzinger

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb. Robert Baden-Powell

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. Horace Mann


Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom. Maria Weston Chapman

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement. Andre Leon Talley

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Leonardo da Vinci

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. Henri Matisse

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve. Travis Bradberry

I promised never to let the Rwandan Genocide die because I knew the Rwandans didn't have much power internationally and certainly didn't have the resources. I felt it was my duty having witnessed it, and having stayed to witness it, that I had to talk about it and keep it going. Romeo Dallaire

If I could have a special power in real life I'd love to fly. Ali Larter

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. Morihei Ueshiba

Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism. Ban Ki-moon

Every crisis offers you extra desired power. William Moulton Marston

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. Gloria Steinem

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. Samuel Adams

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. Aneurin Bevan

Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the consciencee, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good. Pope John XXIII

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy. Joe Baca

Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance. Newt Gingrich

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. Nelson Rockefeller

When you blame others, you give up your power to change. Robert Anthony

Is there anything sciencee should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Paul Davies

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. Akhenaton

Strong government doesn't mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.' Raghuram Rajan

Being reminded about the incredible power of God's love, and living as He intended, is the most powerful motivation to change. Rick Warren

Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand. Mark Z. Jacobson

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. Alvin Toffler

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends. Mary McLeod Bethune

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. Swami Vivekananda

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip. Eckhart Tolle

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. Benjamin Spock

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Erich Fromm

I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back. Chris Hadfield

Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions. Richard Dawkins

The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal. Zachary Taylor

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual. Hayley Williams

No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt? Cesare Beccaria

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. Georges Jacques Danton

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to. Lauren Myracle

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. Abigail Adams

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution. N. R. Narayana Murthy

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. James A. Baldwin

Education is the development of power and ideal. W. E. B. Du Bois

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level. Stephen Lewis

The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front. Jamie Dornan

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. Robert Frost

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself. Pawan Kalyan

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. Gloria Steinem

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane. Hunter S. Thompson

Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America. Isoroku Yamamoto

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. Baruch Spinoza

I support strongly the expansion of nuclear power because that is one of the key ways of getting electricity generated and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Sam Brownback

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change. Bruce Lipton

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. Willa Cather

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. Thomas Hobbes

Truth is powerful and it prevails. Sojourner Truth

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away. Shakti Gawain

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. James Madison

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper. Ai Weiwei

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work. Steven Pressfield

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner. Cher

Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it. Gary Zukav

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. Corazon Aquino


Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. Oliver Stone

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. Abraham Lincoln

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority. Gary Zukav

What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power? Cornelius Vanderbilt

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. Julius Caesar

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourke

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. Susan Sarandon

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. Cal Thomas

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new. Judd Rose

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely. Lech Walesa

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death. Henry Giroux

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cesare Pavese

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. Ayn Rand

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Power ought to serve as a check to power. Charles de Secondat

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty. Herbert Hoover

Sometimes nationalism can be jingoistic - even fascistic - but it can also be a constructive impetus that helps to unify a nation. Those whose nationalist critique of parties finds resonance with masses of voters can acquire vast power. We can only hope that they know what to do with it. Dick Morris

There is a universal fascination with the living dead. There is more to a zombie story that a bunch of corpses attacking the living. The real power of such a story lies with the undercurrent of hopelessness compounded by a very real instinct to survive. Julie Ann Dawson

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. DeWitt Clinton

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

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens. Cornel West

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus

While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day. Robert E. Lee

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of sciencee to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc. N. R. Narayana Murthy

Owning a great golf course gives you great power. Donald Trump

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am intrigued by different religions and respect them all, but to be honest, I feel the most spiritual when I am doing yoga or looking at an ocean. Being spiritual is feeling a connection with a higher power and knowing that life is about more than just achieving goals. It is about feeling good in the moment. Heather Graham

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power. Rory Bremner

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. John Henrik Clarke

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. Henri Nouwen

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. Joel Osteen

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral. Salvatore Quasimodo

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. Peace Pilgrim

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. William Henry Harrison

The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production. Klaus Schwab

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands. Simon Wiesenthal

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice. Beyonce Knowles

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. Maria Montessori

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


Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. Harvey Fierstein

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally. Cesare Beccaria

Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong. Ellen Key

Many of the original New Deal programs required heavy manual labor. WPA workers built hundreds of schools, health clinics, roads, park facilities, and community centers. Much of what we now call our 'infrastructure' - highways, buildings, power plants, etc. - is here thanks to thousands of WPA workers. Kathi Appelt

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control. Hayao Miyazaki

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. Aristotle

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness. Anne Frank

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate. George William Russell

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. Don DeLillo

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love. Wayne Dyer

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop. Alanis Morissette

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation. William Clay Ford, Jr.

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends. J. William Fulbright

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. Joseph Stalin

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights. Pete Stark

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness. Martin Seligman

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses. Yitzhak Shamir

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. Lao Tzu

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. I am just one human being. Dalai Lama

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Shelley

The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied with anything finite. Giordano Bruno

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. Tony Robbins

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

No sciencee is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. Jacob Bronowski

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully. Juhi Chawla

The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people. Chadwick Boseman

The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag. Tina Brown

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men. Eva Longoria

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. James A. Baldwin

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words. Ann Hood

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. Kris Kristofferson

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. Douglas Coupland

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. Bruce Lee

The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power. Leymah Gbowee

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. John Maynard Keynes

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power. John Wooden

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. Ken Blanchard

Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct. Neil deGrasse Tyson

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood. Elia Kazan

I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions. Lata Mangeshkar

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aristotle

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. Stephen Hawking