Power Quotes

"Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government"

Rick Perry, Politician

"Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so"

Estelle Morris, Politician

"We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength"

Charles Stanley, Clergyman

"Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power"

Marcel Marceau, Actor

"The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone"

Laura Bush, First Lady

"The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power"

Max von Laue, Scientist

"It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power"

John Nelson Darby, Clergyman

"I don't seek power and do not run around"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king"

Orson Pratt, Theologian

"The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ"

E. Stanley Jones, Theologian

"Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you"

E. Stanley Jones, Theologian

"If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be"

E. Stanley Jones, Theologian

"Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh"

John Owen, Theologian

"The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it"

Thomas Babington, Poet

"That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production"

Nassau William Senior, Economist

"I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything"

Dave Foley, Comedian

"What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth"

Boris Pasternak, Novelist

"Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light"

Boris Pasternak, Novelist

"As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth"

Boris Pasternak, Novelist

"The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible"

Saint Teresa, Saint

"The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth"

William John Wills, Scientist

"Power is the by-product of understanding"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

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