Quotes About Obtaining Power

#1. Bullies are people who use conflict as a means for obtaining power. Some young people grow out of this; others don't and become old bullies.

Bob Goff

#2. The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.

Max Delbruck

#3. If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and upon the principles of faith which are calculated to put him in possession of the power of God, how much greater will be his faculties for obtaining knowledge ...

Orson Pratt

#4. You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#5. Gentlemen, if I truly want something, you do not have it within your power to stop me from obtaining it.

Lorraine Heath

#6. I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

Nile Rodgers

#7. What is really desired, under the name of riches, is, essentially, power over men; in its simplest sense, the power of obtaining for own own advantage the labour of servant, tradesman, and artist; in wider sense, authority of directing large masses of the nation to various ends.

John Ruskin

#8. We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply with the obtaining or retaining of power.

Davis McCaughey

#9. Most men suck at communicating, Abby. Like, they seriously suck at it. I've been married for over thirty years and I can say this with great certainty.

Samantha Chase

#10. I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.

Megan Fox

#11. Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

David Rakoff

#12. My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. You can only give yourself a chance to find right things when you stop chasing wrong things.

Auliq Ice

#14. A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

John Ruskin

#15. Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.

William A. Dembski