Power Quotes

"I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly"

Diana Ross, Actress

"Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power"

Dan Brown, Author

"The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence"

Moses Mendelssohn, Philosopher

"He was always testing you. He was always testing his power"

James Jarrell Pickle, Politician

"I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting"

Gabrielle Union, Actress

"To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power"

Jane Fonda, Actress

"We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has"

Deborah Tannen, Sociologist

"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience"

Carl Clinton Van Doren, Critic

"We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us"

George Pataki, Politician

"Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers"

George Pataki, Politician

"If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan"

Kim Dae Jung, Leader

"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians"

David Brinkley, Journalist

"We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power"

George Pataki, Politician

"I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient"

Elizabeth Banks, Actress

"Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control"

Ellen Tauscher, Politician

"These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious"

Ethan A. Hitchcock, Soldier

"The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration"

Carol P. Christ, Educator

"It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney"

Christopher Darden, Lawyer

"It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career"

Cate Blanchett, Actress

"I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware"

Diosdado Macapagal, President

"I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level"

Debbie Gibson, Musician

"We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics"

David Milne, Artist

"So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio"

Billy Sherwood, Musician

"Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power"

Chuck Hagel, Politician

"Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas"

Charles Fillmore, Educator

"I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else"

Barbara Castle, Politician

"Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people"

Dana Rohrabacher, Politician

"There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life"

Benjamin Harrison, President

"The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers"

Dennis Prager, Journalist

"The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power"

Carol P. Christ, Educator

"Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility"

Bernard Law Montgomery, Soldier

"I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it"

Claire Danes, Actress

"The power of the computer is starting to spread"

Bill Budge, Businessman

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