Power Quotes

"An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth"

Juan Cole, Educator

"There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place"

Evel Knievel, Entertainer

"The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question"

John Bates Clark, Economist

"Politics is activity in relation to power"

Francis Parker Yockey, Writer

"Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace"

David Brainerd, Clergyman

"One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other"

Friedrich List, Economist

"Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things"

Evel Knievel, Entertainer

"We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through"

Donna Karan, Designer

"The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check"

John Bates Clark, Economist

"America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power"

Friedrich List, Economist

"There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about"

John Goodman, Actor

"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power"

Alan Paton, Novelist

"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future"

Jim Bishop, Journalist

"And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow"

Frederick Henry Hedge, Clergyman

"Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare"

Frederick Henry Hedge, Clergyman

"The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system"

John Bates Clark, Economist

"I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired"

Gustave Courbet, Artist

"The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with"

Giacomo Casanova, Celebrity

"America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love"

Cal Thomas, Journalist

"The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you"

Nicholson Baker, Novelist

"Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth"

Ella Maillart, Writer

"Even though you were radiated doesn't mean you get to have that sort of power"

Eric San, Musician

"My aim was never to seek a force and take power"

Hosni Mubarak, Statesman

"At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press"

Henry Reed, Writer

"We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property"

Cornel West, Educator

"Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?"

Cal Thomas, Journalist

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