Power Quotes

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit.

Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.

From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.

Never give up your power to another person.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.

I was put in this world to change it.

When we have a circle of friends, we have more fun. We get more done, we feel and are stronger, and we really do celebrate the power of our 'us.'

Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do.

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.

In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

I believe in the power of women. As nurturers, we have a unique ability to care and share and make the world a better place. Women Who Inspire are women who are making a difference.

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing.

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.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

Every single choice we make is either going to enhance the spirit or drain it. Every day, we're either giving ourselves power or taking it away.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we come together to make it work.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.