Power Quotes

"By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though"

Penelope Spheeris, Director

"There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers"

Shigeru Yoshida, Politician

"And since all things have been named light and night and things corresponding to their powers for each, everything is full alike of light and invisible night, both equal since nothing has a share in neither"

Parmedides

"Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts"

Tavis Smiley, Author

"In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one"

Pat Boone, Musician

"Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers"

Leon Jouhaux, Leader

"I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make"

Leif Garrett, Musician

"Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language"

Johann G. Hamann

"Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within"

Ralph Cudworth, Theologian

"The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things"

Peace Pilgrim, Activist

"Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power"

Patrick Geddes, Scientist

"Unlimited power corrupts the possessor"

William Pitt, Leader

"Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power"

Tom Brown, Jr., Celebrity

"You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy"

Michael Isikoff, Journalist

"Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness"

Charlotte Davis Kasl

"There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral"

Ida Tarbell, Journalist

"I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before"

James Irwin, Astronaut

"The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia"

Martin C. Smith

"This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness"

Isaac Mayer Wise, Clergyman

"All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism"

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Economist

"These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed"

Ricky Martin, Musician

"The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war"

Kelly Miller, Sociologist

"When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued"

Julia Margaret Cameron, Photographer

"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love"

Miguel Angel Ruiz, Author

"Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career"

Verne Troyer, Actor

"So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative"

Robert Barclay, Writer

"Well I knew JD could go out there and knock the guy out because in training I told JD all the time that he has height, reach and size and he has the power. JD has such a right hand, his right hand is like wow, oh man it is bad"

Michael Moorer, Athlete

"If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet"

Jim Gilmore

"Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power"

Fernand Leger, Artist

"It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction"

E. T. A. Hoffmann, Critic

"A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster"

John Kasich, Politician

"I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses"

Yitzhak Shamir, Statesman

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