Power Quotes

"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down"

Vinton Cerf, Inventor

"The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations"

Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher

"We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"In Norway, we have always believed in the power of dialogue and diplomacy to resolve conflicts and build bridges between nations"

Jens Stoltenberg, Politician

"The only check upon the exercise of the power of one's own government lies in an enlightened public opinion"

Harlan Stone, Lawyer

"If the people are to be our governors, they must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives"

Harlan Stone, Lawyer

"Personal power is the ability to take action"

Blaine Lee, Author

"No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power"

Alan Cohen, Businessman

"Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes"

Henry Taylor, Dramatist

"The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"I do believe in the power of prayer"

Geraldine Ferraro, Politician

"I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system"

Oskar Schindler, Businessman

"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves"

John Burns, Activist

"Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are"

Gary Wright, Musician

"It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away"

Lord Hailsham, Politician

"The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power"

Major Owens, Politician

"It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power"

Major Owens, Politician

"I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"When you blame others, you give up your power to change"

Robert Anthony, Educator

"When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard"

River Phoenix, Actor

"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"That's the power behind a tool like Facebook Connect. It is making a Web without walls. Facebook allows you to go to other sites to comment, rate, etc., without having to set up a new profile for that site"

Erik Qualman, Author

"Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

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