Power Quotes

"I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself"

John Sexton, Educator

"I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars"

Stephen Evans

"The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer"

Nick Rahall, Politician

"I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols"

John Hench, Artist

"I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go"

Jason Mraz, Musician

"In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting"

Paul Harris, Entertainer

"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Politics is not about power"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong"

James Monroe, President

"In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence"

James Monroe, President

"We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built"

Gray Davis, Politician

"There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away"

Saul Williams, Musician

"When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over"

John Perkins, Economist

"We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today"

Gray Davis, Politician

"All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market"

Gray Davis, Politician

"Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session"

James Monroe, President

"We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic"

Isabel Allende, Writer

"Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse"

Isabel Allende, Writer

"I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music"

James Taylor, Musician

"We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

"All of the information that we were getting up to that time from the NRC people, from our people who knew something about nuclear power, was that the breach of the core was not a likelihood to happen"

William Scranton, Politician

"The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells"

Saul Williams, Musician

"The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives"

John Bright, Politician

"When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant"

William Scranton, Politician

"If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

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