Power Quotes

"There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers"

"Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"Only in the last week, South Carolina announced that it is seeking to become the U. S. center for hydrogen fuel cells, and BMW revealed that it will power some of its high-end model cars with hydrogen"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good"

Thomas Hooker, Leader

"Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated"

Bob Schaffer, Politician

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

John Adams, President

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

Blaine Lee, Author

"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt"

Henry George, Economist

"Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos"

Jackie Gleason, Actor

"American power worldwide is at its historic zenith"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life"

Ernestine L. Rose

"I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind"

Ruth Buzzi, Actress

"Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment"

Marsha Sinetar, Philosopher

"Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous"

William Proxmire, Politician

"I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them"

Ernestine L. Rose

"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand"

John Burns, Activist

"Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance"

Isaac Disraeli, Writer

"I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see"

Black Elk, Leader

"For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"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"

John Wycliffe, Theologian

"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it"

William Cobbett, Politician

"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected"

William Plomer, Writer

"Purchasing power is a license to purchase power"

Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher

"The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle"

James Hutton, Scientist

"The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down"

Leon Foucault, Inventor

"The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects"

Arlie Russell Hochschild, Educator

"Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market"

Gray Davis, Politician

"So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!"

Barry Cornwall, Poet

"The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians"

Henry Hazlitt, Philosopher

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