Apparent Power Quotes

#1. God's is real power clothed in apparent powerlessness; Evil's is apparent power which is really powerlessness.

David Jeremiah

#2. Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

Sam Kean

#3. When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies ... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such a power was a crime against the working classes. That soon became apparent ...

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

#4. As the Greeks saw it, to be a man was to be defined by your ability to exert power in a world articulated through transcendent forces ultimately beyond human control. The apparent futility of this perspective was outweighed by the nobility that came with the struggle.

Thomas Van Nortwick

#5. It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.

John Chadwick

#6. Katherine Grey was born with the power of managing old ladies, dogs, and small boys, and she did it without any apparent sense of strain.

Agatha Christie

#7. An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead options. Only then, that is, by the action of Will, good results in good and evil in evil.

Raheel Farooq

#8. Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.

Charles Kennedy

#9. Everything seemed to have less to do with power, and more to do with right and wrong. And it was also apparent that laws were being manipulated using the inconsistency of free will and the shitty make-up of human nature. ~RUIN Katara Aggelos

Lucian Bane

#10. More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.

Jimmy Hoffa

#11. The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

Thomas Hobbes

#12. Indeed, insight is the true hallmark of empathy. The power of true empathy is its ability to give us a fresh understanding of the other person's emotions and thoughts to illuminate an aspect of their experience that would not have been apparent to us had we not stepped into their shoes.

Guy Winch

#13. The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you're the party out of power - on the one hand it's wide open because there's not an heir apparent - but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances.

Bob McDonnell

#15. There is an apparent need to save the earth and the means God chose to do this is not by sending POWER but by sending his Son

Sunday Adelaja

#16. To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

James E. Rogers

#17. Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer