Power Quotes

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

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

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.

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

The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.

Welcome to those who believe in the power of dreams and who would like to join me in my exploration of life.

Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for "as he thinketh within himself, so is he."

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments.” “Yeah,” said Harry, “but you, unlike me, are a git.

When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.

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

I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

The real secret of power is consciousness of power.

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.

Some people have the power but not the willingness to help. Others have the willingness but not the power. God has both.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don't see them.

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation, we look at that monument and we say this is one nation under God.

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.