Power The Quotes

#1. In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.

Smith Wigglesworth

#2. It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power.

Esther Dyson

#3. Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

Mary Parker Follett

#4. Luckily, Dixie, Ernie, and the two girls, Sissy and Mary Ann, all loved his money. Money was power, no question about it. Sanders remembered how his father used to recite the Golden Rule - he who has the gold makes the rules. And Sanders had the gold. The power. The control. And

Harlan Coben

#5. The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.

Gilbert Parker

#6. Wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

Emma Goldman

#7. This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.

Robert Fulghum

#8. One Master and one apprentice; one to embody the power, the other to crave it

Drew Karpyshyn

#9. In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.

Russell Means

#11. When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

Julius Erving

#12. To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.

Bertrand Russell

#13. Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

Alexander P. De Seversky

#14. The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Tom Stoppard

#15. Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.

Cheryl Strayed

#17. To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Vladimir Nabokov

#18. College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.

Oscar Robertson

#19. The subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, even put one in trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it. As

Judith Butler

#20. Even if a man has everything - money, power, the key to eternal life - he still is nothing if he is without a family to love him and for him to love.

Latrivia S. Nelson

#21. The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

Tom Coburn

#22. The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. -Mahatma Gandhi

Kenneth Eade

#23. We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

Libba Bray

#24. I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that
even for just a moment
I can defy gravity and fly through the air. And I love the way that a great skating performance, like any work of art, can move an audience to laughter or tears.

Brian Boitano

#25. [Capitalism assumed] that from the beginning all men are equal. If that were so everyone would be equipped with the same working power, the same education and, above all, the same economic assets ... each person would [then] have only himself to blame if he did not succeed.

Knut Wicksell

#26. The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains. Pen Is Envy, Aunt Lydia would say, quoting another Center motto, warning us away from such objects.

Margaret Atwood

#27. Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.

Winifred Holtby

#28. It was easy to speak theoretically and idealistically about politics when one is seeking power. The demands of exercising it once it is won, however, are so complex and fluid that ideological certitude is often among the first casualties of actual governing.

Jon Meacham

#29. Though not really a comedy, 'Rosewater' is a demonstration of the creed behind 'The Daily Show': belief in the crucial need for impious wit against entrenched power. The freedom of the press is also the freedom to depress - and to inspire. That's a message that can outlive any Oscar season.

Richard Corliss

#30. Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

Peter Tork

#31. Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

Abigail Adams

#32. Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

Antonio Damasio

#33. This is what should be meant by people power. The power for people to choose which of the government's petty, silly, pointless laws they want to obey. And which they don't.

Jeremy Clarkson

#34. We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.

Thomas Jefferson

#35. At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

Howard Dean

#36. When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Mark Zuckerberg

#37. Knowledge is power. The devil it is! One man can have a great deal of knowledge without its giving him the least power, while another possesses supreme authority but next to no knowledge.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#38. After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.

Edward Snowden

#39. TWO THERE SHOULD BE; NO MORE NO LESS. One to embody power, The other to crave it. - Darth Bane

James Luceno

#40. It's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.

Michel Foucault

#41. when love is eclipsed by power, the somber hues of shame darken life

Leon Wurmser

#42. Institutional neglect of racism and injustice is the exercise of power, the kind of power that refuses to notice and refuses to speak.

Jeff Chang

#43. You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah ... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations.

Elon Musk

#44. As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

Naomi Wolf

#45. It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the power of the dollar.

Malcolm X

#46. You must learn how to handle rejection. To succeed, you must learn how to cope with a little word 'no', learn how to strip that rejection of all its power. The best salesmen are those who are rejected most. They are the ones who can take any 'no' and use it as a prod to go onto the next 'yes'.

Tony Robbins

#47. In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.

Baron De Montesquieu

#48. 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

#49. Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.

Thomas Jefferson

#50. The American people, and the citizens of all Western nations, have the right to know about every single thing their representatives do on their behalf. After all, elected officials are merely representing those who hold the true power (the people).

James Morcan

#51. When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.

August Bebel

#52. The greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#53. The past had power. The past was a riptide. That's why, if you had a brain in your head, you didn't go in the water.

Lou Berney

#54. This is the time of myths, Orphan. They are the cables that run under the floors and power the world, the conduits of unseen currents, the steam that powers the great engines of the earth.

Lavie Tidhar

#55. He lounged and exhaled, and felt some small part of himself relax, like the moment when the elastic band on a child's toy plane, wound and wound until the twisting redoubles upon itself and then let go to power the propeller, spasms once and releases that second layer of knots. He

Nick Harkaway

#56. The simple right to reproductive freedom - to sexuality as an expression that is separable from reproduction - is basic to restoring women's power, the balance between women and men, and a balance between humans and nature.

Gloria Steinem

#57. All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

Eddie Murphy

#58. The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Hermann Hesse

#59. The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who wield power in it; and the more he trusts those who wield such power, the more vulnerable he makes himself to becoming their victim.

Thomas Szasz

#60. Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the power, the passion, the freedom and the joy of being uniquely you. It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.

Don Coppersmith

#61. I had a very good package for Phoenix, but at other tracks we do not have the power. The Brazilian Grand Prix was maybe closer to the reality.

Jean Alesi

#62. Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

James Howe

#63. We cannot believe, we men, that power will ever reside happily in the body of a woman, unless that power is a male child. Not true power. The power must be in male hands, God-given. That's what our fathers tell us, idiots that they are

Clive Barker

#64. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.

J.R. Miller

#65. 'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.

Thomas Sowell

#66. Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#67. While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit ... Once she hears the cries of this lost part of herself needing rescue, her journey truly begins.

Valerie Estelle Frankel

#68. The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.

Ed Royce

#69. Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.

Felix O. Hartmann

#70. Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.

Joseph Weizenbaum

#71. For a fraction of a moment she glimpsed the truth. She saw a world so terrified of Woman's mystical power that nothing would do but to obliterate the very source of that power - the natural shape of her body.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#72. The will to power, the force of desire, appears as an insensitive urge to dominate. But several points in Nietzsche's work speak against such a reading. The "self" includes the desire above all for self-overcoming. It is our own limits we most seek to break.

Karmen MacKendrick

#73. When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it is not used to harm people.

Laozi

#74. To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.

Iyanla Vanzant

#75. What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#76. You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it?
There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

Junot Diaz

#77. Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.

Barbara De Angelis

#78. The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the media shapes our lives and our perceptions of reality.

Thomas Hunt Morgan

#79. Respect for everyone he met. The preference of service over power. The rejection of violence. Israel - its Law and worship - as the primal source of meaning.

James Carroll

#80. To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.

Lamar Alexander

#81. Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#82. The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.

Brigid Schulte

#83. Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

Chuck Hagel

#84. The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.

David Frum

#85. With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#86. There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.

Frederick Lenz

#87. Being made in His image we have within us the capacity to know Him. In our sins we lack only the power. The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition.

A.W. Tozer

#88. [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.

Elizabeth I

#89. A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.

Edward Gibbon

#90. Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

Edward Abbey

#91. The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

George Orwell

#92. To read a work one must also read the underlying infrastructure to make legible its aesthetic and political composition. This ability to read a phenomenon based on the infrastructures of resonance around it is what I refer to as seeing power. The

Nato Thompson

#93. One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

Jeff Goodell

#94. Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

Eckhart Tolle

#95. My adult mind says that the really interesting bit of LOTR must have been what happened afterwards - the troubles of a war-ravaged continent, the Marshall Aid scheme for Mordor, the shift in political power, the democratization of Minas

Anonymous

#96. Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.

Leon Levy

#97. What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was greater than any power the Builders had had, he was sure of that. The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison ...

Jeanne DuPrau

#98. Tribes have the potential to provide almost 15 percent of the country's electricity with wind power, and have 4.5 times the solar resources to power the entire U.S.

Winona LaDuke

#99. The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

Baron De Montesquieu

#100. I had a dream about you. You suggested to split the profits, so I did. I threw one half in the furnace to power the steam engine, and the other half in the air to distract our pursuers.

Bauvard