Power Quotes

"The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power"

"About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power"

Sidney Altman, Scientist

"The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows"

Roy Moore, Judge

"It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies"

Pierce Brosnan, Actor

"Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?"

Harry Shearer, Actor

"Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power"

Garet Garrett, Journalist

"For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet"

Eric S. Raymond, Author

"To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence"

Adam Clarke, Theologian

"With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous"

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Businessman

"I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at"

Kevin Bacon, Actor

"They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other"

Joseph Howe, Politician

"Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it"

Joseph Howe, Politician

"Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska"

Joe Miller, Politician

"Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people"

Joe Miller, Politician

"And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position"

Joe Miller, Politician

"I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power"

Denis Kearney, Politician

"As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening"

Felicity Kendal, Actress

"The master's irresponsible power has no such bound"

Fanny Kemble, Actress

"All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars"

Charles A. Beard, Historian

"Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world"

Gordon Brown, Politician

"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility"

Vaclav Havel, Leader

"I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials"

Dick Murphy, Politician

"Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier"

Dick Dale, Musician

"Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy"

Robert Reich, Economist

"I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is"

James Otis, Lawyer

"Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin"

John Chrysostom, Clergyman

"The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened"

Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist

"But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it"

Pierre de Fermat, Lawyer

"The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject"

Ben Edwards, Entertainer

"The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself"

Kathe Kollwitz, Artist

"The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power"

Gerry Spence, Lawyer

"Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film it next week. It's a game for the Internet called Advance Warriors, and my character is Max, who is blind, but he has special powers. It will be a new game played on the Internet"

Jeremy Bulloch, Actor

"It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel"

Ben Harper, Musician

"Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford"

Arthur J. Goldberg, Judge

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