Power Quotes

"When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form"

"There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power I the world? Then be yourself"

Ralph W. Trine

"Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing"

Mary Oliver, Poet

"What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet"

James T. Walsh, Politician

"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat"

John F. Lehman, Jr., Businessman

"For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty"

John Cheever, Writer

"I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody"

Jim Lehrer, Journalist

"I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again"

Peter Hain, Politician

"Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound"

Peace Pilgrim, Activist

"I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background"

Walter Gilbert, Scientist

"The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

"There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"It was an argument of rare power and eloquence"

William Henry Moody, Politician

"The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued"

Thomas Kuhn, Writer

"The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer"

Thomas J. Watson, Scientist

"Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance"

Otto Dix, Artist

"We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will"

Neville Chamberlain, Politician

"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another"

Thomas Hughes, Lawyer

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it"

Roseanne Barr, Actress

"My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge"

Terence Stamp, Actor

"There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers"

Li Peng, Public Servant

"In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits"

Robert Hall, Clergyman

"If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people"

William Greider, Author

"If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself"

Francis Wright, Activist

"The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong"

Jeff Sessions, Politician

"The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands"

Ted Kulongoski, Politician

"Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked"

Matthew Vaughn, Producer

"We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered"

Gale Norton, Public Servant

"By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life"

James G. Frazer, Scientist

"The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does"

Will Wright, Scientist

"Angels possess greater powers than do human beings"

Walter Lang, Director

"My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government"

Charles Edison, Businessman

"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words"

William Shirley, Politician

"I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power"

Kenneth Clarke, Politician

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