Power Quotes

"From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer"

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Scientist

"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us"

Wilma Rudolph, Athlete

"There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all"

Annie Jump Cannon, Scientist

"Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails"

Ian Gilmour, Politician

"More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself"

Gabriel Heatter, Journalist

"I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes"

Tara Reid, Actress

"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins"

William Pitt, Leader

"The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all"

Origen, Theologian

"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with"

Robert Staughton Lynd, Sociologist

"Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images"

Steven Bochco, Producer

"Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few"

Robert Ludlum, Novelist

"The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is"

Melissa Leo, Actress

"Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment"

Maximilian Schell, Actor

"Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently"

James Wolfensohn, Businessman

"It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else"

Mariska Hargitay, Actress

"You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed"

Napolean Hill, Author

"We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer"

Michael Connelly, Author

"Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown"

Li Ka Shing, Businessman

"The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process"

John Jay Hooker, Businessman

"With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new"

Judd Rose, Journalist

"After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power"

Sheikh Hasina

"Television has tremendous power over our lives"

Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Celebrity

"I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

"No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government"

Isabel Paterson, Journalist

"Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!"

Greg Anderson, Athlete

"We played for power and impact"

John Gallagher, Businessman

"We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess"

James F. Byrnes, Politician

"It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people"

Harry Belafonte, Musician

"The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins"

Harry Bridges, Activist

"American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution"

Evan Thomas

"All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates"

Frank Chodorov, Writer

"This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces"

Earl Browder, Activist

"One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know"

Chris Frantz, Musician

"The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded"

Franklin Pierce, President

"The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction"

Fernando Wood, Politician

"Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement"

Joan Blades, Businessman

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