Power Quotes

"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you"

"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power"

"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

"If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"I wish I had it in my power to furnish you with accommodation I should feel proud to do it, shall be happy to hear from you at anytime when you engagements will allow you an hour and remain with best wishes for yourself, family and circuit"

John Hawley

"To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres"

Bruno Bauer, Theologian

"The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment"

Eric Butterworth, Educator

"I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works"

Ken Blanchard, Author

"In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power"

Ken Blanchard, Author

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"

John Acton, Historian

"The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately"

Ely Culbertson, Writer

"Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'"

Alan Moore, Writer

"Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power"

William S. Paley, Businessman

"There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself"

Yancy Butler, Actress

"It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption"

Darrell Issa, Politician

"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition"

John Acton, Historian

"If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer"

Susan Powter, Celebrity

"Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously"

Lance Morrow

"One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me"

John Sexton, Educator

"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

"No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis"

James Monroe, President

"To love without role, without power plays, is revolution"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

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