Power Quotes

"Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous"

Kent Conrad, Politician

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force"

Irving Berlin, Musician

"I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them"

Harry Reid, Politician

"We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now"

George A. Sheehan, Writer

"I think I believe a little bit in the power of people to really cast a bad energy on you if they want to. If the bad mojo wants to come your way, look out"

Dileep Rao, Actor

"If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world"

Vinoba Bhave, Educator

"Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people"

John Keegan, Historian

"The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism"

Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic

"The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy"

Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic

"We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect"

Sissela Bok, Philosopher

"People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception"

Bernard Katz, Scientist

"Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition"

Eliza Farnham, Activist

"Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends"

James Bovard, Author

"I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns"

Mike Wilson

"Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide"

Ice Cube, Musician

"You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go"

Ralph Steadman, Cartoonist

"In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy"

Roger Mudd, Journalist

"Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

"You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead"

Whitey Ford, Athlete

"To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power"

Ronnie Montrose, Musician

"To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that"

Carlos Castaneda, Writer

"Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that"

Steve Guttenberg, Actor

"God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children"

Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Clergyman

"Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism"

Vladimir Putin, President

"But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been"

William Kunstler, Activist

"It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power"

Michael Foot, Politician

"When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

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