Power Quotes

"Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements"

Bill Frist, Politician

"I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road"

Benjamin F. Wade, Politician

"To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience"

Barbara Deming, Author

"In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"All children have creative power"

Brenda Ueland, Writer

"I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest"

Beatrix Potter, Author

"I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all"

Allison Janney, Actress

"Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere"

Benjamin F. Wade, Politician

"In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

"Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved"

Cornelius Nepos

"Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms"

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosopher

"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power"

Clint Eastwood, Actor

"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives"

Clint Eastwood, Actor

"Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant"

Tony Robbins, Author

"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment"

Tony Robbins, Author

"People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together"

Jackie Collins, Author

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular"

Tony Robbins, Author

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive"

Eleonora Duse, Actress

"There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives"

Tony Robbins, Author

"The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started"

Christopher Nolan, Director

"The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail"

John Wesley Powell, Explorer

"This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area"

Rick Perry, Politician

"The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul"

Gilbert Highet, Writer

"The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams"

Josiah Stamp, Businessman

"If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers"

Bernhard von Bulow, Statesman

"English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power"

Bernhard von Bulow, Statesman

"The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall"

Davy Crockett, Explorer

"Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power"

Mary Wortley, Royalty

"In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk"

John Badham, Director

"Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

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