Power Quotes

"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose"

J. Martin Kohe, Psychologist

"For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"Power is paradoxical"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events"

Barbara Olson, Journalist

"How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?"

Robert Plant, Musician

"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives"

Robert Caro, Writer

"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority"

Robert Welch

"The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed"

John McDonald, Leader

"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any"

Alice Walker, Author

"Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man"

Satchel Paige, Athlete

"The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis"

John Wycliffe, Theologian

"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer"

Thaddeus Stevens, Politician

"God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five"

James Merrill, Poet

"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt"

Henry George, Economist

"From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy"

Edward Grey, Politician

"There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!"

Barry Cornwall, Poet

"Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world"

Mary Chesnut, Author

"I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power"

Mary Pickford, Actress

"Only in the last week, South Carolina announced that it is seeking to become the U. S. center for hydrogen fuel cells, and BMW revealed that it will power some of its high-end model cars with hydrogen"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

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