Power Quotes

"The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers"

"There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity"

John Hume, Politician

"Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe"

Ray Manzarek, Musician

"I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers"

Uri Geller, Entertainer

"China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population"

Jo Ann Emerson, Politician

"When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness"

Herbert Croly, Author

"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor"

George William Russell, Writer

"As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out"

Dan Wheldon, Celebrity

"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion"

William Godwin, Writer

"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power"

Harriet Martineau, Writer

"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab"

Umberto Guidoni, Astronaut

"I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will"

Jonathan Edwards, Clergyman

"Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express"

George A. Smith, Clergyman

"My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go "

Evita Peron, Statesman

"I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?"

Michael C. Hall, Actor

"We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful"

Michael Bergin, Actor

"I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love"

Michael Landon, Actor

"Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress"

Daniel Ellsberg, Celebrity

"Since 2000, we've seen base power rates rise by 50%"

Greg Walden, Politician

"Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates"

Greg Walden, Politician

"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche"

George Crumb, Composer

"I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power"

David E. Price, Politician

"Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants"

Wilson Greatbatch, Inventor

"The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed"

William Henry Harrison, President

"Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response"

Tom Allen, Politician

"Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power"

Joan Didion, Author

"Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned"

Thomas Reid, Philosopher

"Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over"

Charlize Theron, Actress

"If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power"

Joan Didion, Author

"If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard"

Shannen Doherty, Actress

"I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

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