Power Quotes

"What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power"

"I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good"

"Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see"

Black Elk, Leader

"I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated"

Bob Schaffer, Politician

"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases"

John Adams, President

"This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it"

William Cobbett, Politician

"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself"

Blaine Lee, Author

"Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market"

Gray Davis, Politician

"Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos"

Jackie Gleason, Actor

"Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it"

John Henrik Clarke, Author

"American power worldwide is at its historic zenith"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life"

Ernestine L. Rose

"I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind"

Ruth Buzzi, Actress

"Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment"

Marsha Sinetar, Philosopher

"Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous"

William Proxmire, Politician

"I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them"

Ernestine L. Rose

"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand"

John Burns, Activist

"Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here"

Gray Davis, Politician

"Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance"

Isaac Disraeli, Writer

"For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you"

Al Franken, Comedian

"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected"

William Plomer, Writer

"Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here"

Daniel Ortega, Statesman

"Purchasing power is a license to purchase power"

Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher

"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power"

Charles Simmons, Politician

"The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle"

James Hutton, Scientist

"The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down"

Leon Foucault, Inventor

"The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects"

Arlie Russell Hochschild, Educator

"Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired"

Gustave Courbet, Artist

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