Power Quotes

"The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will"

Robert Kagan, Writer

"I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition"

Robert Kagan, Writer

"One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time"

Roy Wood, Musician

"Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power"

J. G. Holland, Novelist

"We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them"

Roland Allen, Clergyman

"Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good"

William H. Macy, Actor

"From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world"

William Shenstone, Poet

"Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today"

Jared Diamond, Author

"Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people"

James Bovard, Author

"I believe in the power of weakness"

Pat Buckley, Clergyman

"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power"

William Gaddis, Novelist

"The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process"

Barbara Colorose

"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction"

Michael Faraday, Scientist

"With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice"

Pat Benatar, Musician

"Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role"

Robert Kagan, Writer

"For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil"

Jonah Goldberg, Celebrity

"We don't know the power that's within our own bodies"

Dave Brubeck, Musician

"The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender"

William Booth, Leader

"I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"The greatest power is not money power, but political power"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one"

Valerie Jarrett, Lawyer

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike"

Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist

"A word after a word after a word is power"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives"

Robert Emmet, Activist

"The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together"

Neil Young, Musician

"So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title"

Marlo Thomas, Actress

"The greatest power is often simple patience"

E. Joseph Cossman, Businessman

"I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level"

Stephen Lewis, Politician

"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

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