Power Quotes

"I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers"

Marguerite Gardiner, Writer

"The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule"

Robert Welch

"I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures"

Larry Wall, Author

"Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power"

Jean Paul, Author

"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door"

Melissa Etheridge, Musician

"The only power you have is the word no"

Frances McDormand, Actress

"Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent"

Robert Welch

"I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them"

Kid Rock, Musician

"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted"

George Ripley, Activist

"It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it"

Lincoln Steffens, Journalist

"In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States"

Robert Welch

"Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference"

Kanye West, Musician

"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing"

Jose Marti, Activist

"But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

"Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life"

Jose Marti, Activist

"But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power"

Frances McDormand, Actress

"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

Page 17 of 54