Power Quotes

"The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians"

Henry Hazlitt, Philosopher

"With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power"

Billy Mitchell, Soldier

"He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity"

Nick Faldo, Athlete

"Power is dangerous unless you have humility"

Richard J. Daley, Politician

"There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers"

Ricardo Lagos, Politician

"With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift"

Justin Guarini, Musician

"For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever"

Arthur Sullivan, Composer

"We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again"

Paul Kagame, Statesman

"Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth"

Marston Morse, Mathematician

"The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out"

Alfred Jodl, Soldier

"The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future"

Joshua Chamberlain, Soldier

"It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth"

George A. Smith, Clergyman

"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom"

Stephen Vincent Benet, Poet

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also"

Thomas Reid, Philosopher

"After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork"

James Prescott Joule, Physicist

"I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip"

Jewel Kilcher, Musician

"On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not"

Carl Van Vechten, Writer

"One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are"

Cal Thomas, Journalist

"When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist"

Andrea Mitchell, Journalist

"We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light"

Johannes P. Muller, Scientist

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"Power and speed be hands and feet"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Nothing external to you has any power over you"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"A good indignation brings out all one's powers"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Order is power"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason"

Voltaire, Writer

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us"

Voltaire, Writer

"What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking"

Voltaire, Writer

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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