Power Quotes

"There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power"

"Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved"

Patricia Schroeder, Leader

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life"

Brigham Young, Leader

"Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

"In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

"In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

"The motive power of democracy is love"

Henri Bergson, Philosopher

"Fight the power that be. Fight the power"

Spike Lee, Director

"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living"

Tryon Edwards, Theologian

"To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power"

Tryon Edwards, Theologian

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential"

Frances Wright, Writer

"How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers"

Frances Wright, Writer

"Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize"

John Stuart Blackie, Writer

"The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"

Abigail Adams, First Lady

"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could"

Abigail Adams, First Lady

"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken"

Abigail Adams, First Lady

"No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges"

Buenaventura Durruti, Revolutionary

"All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

"If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!"

Andrei Platonov, Writer

"I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind"

Woodrow Wilson

"Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

"There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power"

Eugenio Montale, Poet

"Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest"

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Diplomat

"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others"

Tryon Edwards, Theologian

"All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines"

Amar Bose, Inventor

"This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power"

Joe Biden, Vice President

"Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

"The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

"But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel"

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Writer

"It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good"

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont, Author

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