Quotes About Power In Numbers

#1. The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.

Suzy Bogguss

#2. The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

Deb Caletti

#3. The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system.

Edward S. Herman

#4. There seems to be a firewall in my mind against ideas expressed in numbers and graphs rather than words, or in abstract words such as Sin or Creativity. I just don't understand. And incomprehension is boredom.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. Language was a code, like numbers, he said, and depended just as much on rhythm for its power

Blue Balliett

#6. Never underestimate the power of a loosely knit group working for a good cause. All of us who work for peace together, all of us who pray for peace together, are a small minority, but a powerful spiritual fellowship. Our power is beyond our numbers.

Peace Pilgrim

#7. By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

Jesmyn Ward

#8. You will always be a puppet on someone else's line if you don't care enough about the big picture to let your tiny voice be heard. When it is combined with the tiny voices of millions of others that is the real power.

Kenneth Eade

#9. Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for
the centre of mass.

Gerald Stanley Lee

#10. A massive power outage in Washington, D.C., today affected a number of federal buildings, including the White House. When asked when they could restore power to the White House, officials said, '2016?'

Jimmy Fallon

#11. Euclid discovered that perfect numbers are always the multiple of two numbers, one of which is a power of 2 and the other being the next power of 2 minus 1.

Simon Singh

#12. I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,

Charles Dickens

#13. The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#14. The healing power of love and relationships has been documented in an increasing number of well-designed scientific studies involving hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world.

Dean Ornish

#15. Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

Rufus Choate

#16. If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put it in the power of a few desperate men to ruin the welfare of those who are much superior to them in strength, number, and interest.

Joseph Addison

#17. Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

Leonhard Euler

#18. We will step up support for the non-commodity export sector, working more closely with potential buyers of Russian goods. We do have something to offer in the IT sphere, the nuclear power industry, aircraft manufacturing, the aerospace industry and a number of other sectors

Dmitry Medvedev

#19. No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

Felix Adler

#20. No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

Mark Gibbs

#21. For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

Vilfredo Pareto

#22. The power numbers are nice, but I'm most pleased that I've been consistent. Home runs come from having a consistent approach .

Ian Kinsler

#23. China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day.

Bernard Arnault

#24. Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws.

Edgar Cayce

#25. it was not by numbers that we were defeated. A power was there that we have not felt before.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#26. Whether you job involves chasing criminals, crouching numbers, or wrestling with paperwork, learning how to recognize and rely on those hunches and gut feelings can dramatically improve your job performance.

Laurie Nadel

#27. When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

Don DeLillo

#28. I think that power comes in numbers, and we're in an industry where the actors need to have a bigger voice.

Julianna Margulies

#29. In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

Sun Tzu

#30. In a world where the threat is asymmetrical, where the weak defy the strong, the power of conviction, the capacity to convince, the ability to sway opinion count as much as the number of military divisions.

Dominique De Villepin

#31. Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

Mary Parker Follett

#32. If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.

Alexander Hamilton

#33. The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.

James Madison

#34. The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

John Lancaster Spalding

#35. Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.

Abraham Clark

#36. Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power and depth, praise these qualities. Praise them daily. A number of times.

David Deida

#37. That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.

Aaron Paul

#38. You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#39. America is number one in wind power.

Barack Obama

#40. Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.

Pat Conroy

#41. Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars,
Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,
Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down,
Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power
So scatter and consume them in his rage,
That not a man should live to rue their fall.

Christopher Marlowe

#42. A group of followers has strength because of its numbers.
A following has power because of its beliefs.

Simon Sinek

#43. An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#44. The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power, of unlimited numbers of people.

Joel Bakan

#45. Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

Kevin O'Leary

#46. With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#47. While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.

Ellen Willis

#48. Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay, while nations with a large number of producers vibrantly grow-in wealth, freedom, power, influence and the pursuit of happiness.

Oliver DeMille

#49. I know human nature. We might sacrifice a few, because we are stupid and hardwired for group survival. But we would never die in the thousands because a god wished it. Those kinds of numbers require material gains, like power, wealth, territory.

Ilona Andrews

#50. The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

Harry Lennix

#51. There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.

Jack McDevitt

#52. We need to take away the government's money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar's soundness depends on its being untied from the machine that can make an infinite number of copies of dollars and reduce their value to zero.

Ron Paul

#53. Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women ... that will be a society that works for everyone.

Anne-Marie Slaughter