Power Quotes

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing el

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

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

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

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

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.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do?

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

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.

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.

The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

Those who don't know must learn from those who do.

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

Character is power.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Macho does not prove mucho

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you - attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Patience and gentleness is power.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love ...

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.

Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

The way to have power is to take it.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Writing must always have intention because words have power.

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.

War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.

What power has love but forgiveness?

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

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.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

Power to the peaceful!

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

Nature has always had more force than education.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

All children have creative power.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it.

The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

Perhaps that is what love is — the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests might be that 'I have a kid with leukemia.' Or, 'I'm a Nazi.' It gives marginalized people more power.

A good intention clothes itself with power.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

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

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

Mind is the Master/power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills/He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

Knowledge is power.

Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer.

A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Ideas... they have the power

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.

Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

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