Power Quotes

"Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom"

Maria W. Chapman

"We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained"

Joschka Fischer, Politician

"I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power"

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Lawyer

"I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will"

Paul Thomas Anderson, Director

"Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement"

Justin Winsor, Writer

"That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up"

Stone Gossard, Musician

"There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing"

Jenna Elfman, Actress

"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness"

Shakti Gawain, Author

"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station"

Roger Andrew Taylor, Musician

"Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today"

Jack Valenti, Businessman

"The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

"Power in America today is control of the means of communication"

Theodore White, Journalist

"The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values"

Michael Schudson, Sociologist

"We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power"

Maria Cantwell, Politician

"The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station"

Peter Hain, Politician

"Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me"

Nigel Mansell, Athlete

"What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power"

Lionel Jospin, Statesman

"As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power"

Douglas Hyde, Politician

"For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life"

Myriam Miedzian, Actress

"I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"I am the guardian of power, not its owner"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

"We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat"

John Warner, Politician

"A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour"

Shirley Manson, Musician

"The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"I believe I am the highest power, absolutely"

GG Allin, Musician

"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that"

Oliver Stone, Director

"The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates"

Frank Chodorov, Writer

"But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies"

Ferdinand Lassalle, Politician

"Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities"

Marvin Olasky, Educator

"It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill"

Charles Tupper, Statesman

"At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law"

Jose Serrano, Politician

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