People Power Quotes

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

While my military experience reinforced in me the strength that I have, it also demonstrated to me that I have the ability and power to make a difference in people's lives.

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

I'm in a position where - I mean, not a lot of people are in a very fortunate position - where I kind of have the power to choose what I want to do in a way.

Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.

The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.

That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.

All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit.

To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.

The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule.

The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

Love IS the People's Power

When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

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.

The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, and the security of the world.

Today’s generation of young people holds more power than any generation before it to make a positive impact on the world.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.

America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

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.

I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people.

Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.

The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.