Power Quotes

"My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it"

Natasha Henstridge, Actress

"Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region"

Kim Dae Jung, Leader

"The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped"

John Doolittle, Politician

"What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason"

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Writer

"When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art"

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined"

Elizabeth Edwards, Lawyer

"We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse"

Frank Luntz, Politician

"No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased"

Felix Adler, Educator

"It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time"

Fareed Zakaria, Journalist

"Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration"

DeWitt Clinton, Politician

"Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery"

Daniel De Leon, Activist

"I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man"

Michelle Rodriguez, Actress

"If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress"

Dick Thornburgh, Politician

"There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation"

Dennis Prager, Journalist

"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well"

Lewis B. Smedes

"And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon"

Kim Dae Jung, Leader

"My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening"

Charlie Norwood, Politician

"The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure"

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Musician

"I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining"

Ed Miliband, Politician

"Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different"

Dannii Minogue, Musician

"Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light"

Beverly Sills, Musician

"I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States"

Dana Rohrabacher, Politician

"Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations"

Chuck Hagel, Politician

"The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law"

Dick Thornburgh, Politician

"My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer"

Anna Lee, Actress

"IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction"

Carl Clinton Van Doren, Critic

"Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age"

Anna Garlin Spencer

"The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it"

Chris Bell, Politician

"The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power"

Barbara Deming, Author

"France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything"

Adam Michnik, Editor

"The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers"

Benjamin Banneker, Scientist

"The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them"

Auberon Herbert

"In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice"

Ali A. Saleh

"It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers"

Arthur Capper, Politician

"Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

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