Power Quotes

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

"The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with"

"Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients"

Alan Keyes, Politician

"From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it"

Andy Taylor

"Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions"

Barney Frank, Politician

"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Business is in itself a power"

Garet Garrett, Journalist

"India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship"

Pierre Pettigrew, Politician

"The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change"

Edward Levi, Public Servant

"The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed"

Giulio Douhet, Soldier

"Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender"

Edgar Lee Masters, Poet

"Today we are in a war against war - music is our power"

Michael Franti, Musician

"I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that"

Keith Haring, Artist

"I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!"

Dorothy Stratten, Celebrity

"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both"

Fawn M. Brodie, Author

"I know My God commands, whose power no power resists"

Robert Greene, Playwright

"The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government"

Amy Goodman, Journalist

"I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries"

Joschka Fischer, Politician

"We hate those in power in Washington D.C. and anything bad that happens to them is good for us"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"Power is the ability to get things done"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

"Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

"This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field"

Robert Huber, Scientist

"The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations"

Richard Owen, Scientist

"There is no limit to the power of loving"

John Morton, Clergyman

"I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence"

Theodore Dreiser, Novelist

"The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment"

Craig T. Nelson, Actor

"It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America"

Jon Voight, Actor

"I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over"

John Avlon, Writer

"I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot"

Anthony Wayne, Soldier

"Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent"

James Connolly, Politician

"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire"

John W. Foster, Soldier

"There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed"

Francis Darwin, Scientist

"The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other"

Mark Hopkins, Educator

"He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it"

Rosario Dawson, Actress

"If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family"

Donna Reed, Actress

"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life"

Charles Buck

"The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power"

Jerry Rubin, Activist

"Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society"

Delphine de Girardin, Novelist

"The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

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