Power Quotes

"By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live"

Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Clergyman

"It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society"

Murray Rothbard, Economist

"I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency"

James Bovard, Author

"The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power"

James Bovard, Author

"Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength"

Stafford Cripps, Politician

"We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power"

Jacky Ickx, Celebrity

"To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"I like power and I like to use it"

Sam Rayburn, Politician

"Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Given Ivan's size and power, we must remain vigilant"

Mike Rogers

"The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible"

Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Clergyman

"The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity"

William Godwin, Writer

"Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say"

Thierry Henry, Athlete

"The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society"

Claudio Hummes

"Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble"

Stuart Symington, Businessman

"I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it"

Jeffrey Jones, Actor

"The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard"

Penelope Lively, Author

"By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't"

Mitch McConnell, Politician

"About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength"

Jane Elliot, Actress

"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power"

William Henry Harrison, President

"I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know"

Jean Houston, Author

"Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future"

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist

"I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power"

Roy Romer, Politician

"I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation"

Ronnie Spector, Musician

"We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people"

John Keegan, Historian

"I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power"

John Fogerty, Musician

"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment"

Matthew Arnold, Poet

"I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs"

Greg Walden, Politician

"The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

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