Power Quotes

"God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven"

"Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty"

Edward Dahlberg, Novelist

"King? response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens"

Cornel West, Educator

"The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it"

Alice Cooper, Musician

"I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun"

Catherine Crier, Journalist

"As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship"

Corazon Aquino, President

"Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat"

Bill Hybels, Clergyman

"No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'"

Cal Thomas, Journalist

"Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq"

Ahmed Chalabi, Statesman

"Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests"

Breyten Breytenbach, Writer

"The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives"

Albert Bandura, Psychologist

"The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch"

Corazon Aquino, President

"As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it"

Corazon Aquino, President

"What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it"

Anita Hill, Professor

"And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, he didn't use me. It wasn't hard for me to leave - it isn't my scene. I have nothing to do there"

Aleksandr Lebed, Politician

"With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue"

Joel Osteen, Clergyman

"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help"

Alvin Adams, Businessman

"I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations"

Aleksandr Lebed, Politician

"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it"

Woodrow Wilson

"First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

"We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings"

Kjell Magne Bondevik, Statesman

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy"

Denis Waitley, Writer

"We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces"

Carl Sagan, Scientist

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect"

Bruce Lee, Actor

"And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it"

Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor

Page 35 of 54