Power Quotes

"The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power."

"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"

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

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

"There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes a difference and especially try to influence adults and put pressure on people in power."

"Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people."

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

"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."

"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."

"I believe in the power of shared data and technology to help build a better future."

"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."

"I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators."

"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."

"Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am."

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

"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power."

"I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming."

"It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win."

"Glutes are power."

"If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?"

"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."

"Power without abuse loses its charm."

"The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while."

"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."

"You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think."

"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."

"Only he deserves power who every day justifies it."

"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."

"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."

"To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations."

"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."

"I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in the hands of white people who only formed four per cent."

"When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions."

"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."

"However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice."

"I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever."

"The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals."

"If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force."

"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."

"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."

"The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power."

"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."

"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."