Power Quotes

"I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side"

"Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it"

"But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art"

Robert Fortune, Scientist

"Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous"

James Prescott Joule, Physicist

"I was holding a reserve inside all along. When you're with someone as powerful as Donald, you have no choice. You can get lost within that power if you're not careful"

Marla Maples, Actress

"Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do"

Diane Wakoski, Poet

"My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music"

Peter Tork, Musician

"And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power"

DeForest Soaries, Politician

"Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press"

Mike Pence, Politician

"We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers"

Giorgio de Chirico, Artist

"I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom"

James E. Rogers, Educator

"I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God"

David Brainerd, Clergyman

"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect"

Joan Didion, Author

"It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are"

Jim Cramer, Businessman

"I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world"

Evel Knievel, Entertainer

"That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested"

Edmund Barton, Politician

"The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements"

Christy Turlington, Model

"I just keep praying for Joan to get her power back. To resolve her problems and rise to the top. To fight back!"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

"But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide"

Arthur Hertzberg, Theologian

"Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed"

Adrian Cronauer, Entertainer

"I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble"

Mary McDonnell, Actress

"In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party"

Christine O'Donnell, Politician

"Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free"

Tammy Bruce, Author

"Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world"

Clifford Stoll, Author

"Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government"

James K. Polk, President

"Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power"

Vinoba Bhave, Educator

"To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand"

Tiberius, Statesman

"If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one"

Peter MacKay, Politician

"Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many"

Maggie Kuhn, Activist

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