Power Quotes

"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"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"People have the power to redeem the work of fools"

Patti Smith, Musician

"It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants"

George W. Bush, President

"Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants"

Barack Obama, President

"But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no"

Barack Obama, President

"As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act"

Barack Obama, President

"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"

Herbert Hoover, President

"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago"

Barack Obama, President

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

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest"

George W. Bush, President

"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well"

George W. Bush, President

"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

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

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things"

William Wordsworth, Poet

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

Harold Wilson, Statesman

"The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them"

Olive Schreiner, Writer

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

Eric Sevareid, Journalist

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

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

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

Eric Sevareid, Journalist

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

Eric Sevareid, Journalist

"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"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"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

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

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured"

Stendhal, Writer

"The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch"

George Byron, Poet

"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

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