Power Quotes

• And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is very good. Because democracy is not possible in the Muslim world without bringing in the Islamists or part of the Islamists who hate us now into these governments.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • World
  • Good
  • Experience

• Intelligence is loose in the galaxy. Power is in our hands, for better or worse. We can modify Nature’s rules, if we dare, but we cannot ignore her lessons.

  

  David Brin
  • Nature
  • Ignore
  • Galaxy

• I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting to run for office. And anyone who knows me knows that none of that's true.

  

  David Mixner
  • People
  • Art
  • True

• In its essence, any art that relies on words makes use of their ability to eat away - of their corrosive function - just as etching depends on the corrosive power of nitric acid.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Art
  • Power
  • Words

• I'm not a religious freak, but I do believe that there is a higher power.

  

  Charlotte Rae
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Religious

• We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.

  

  Jane Elliott
  • Power
  • Racism
  • Genetical

• Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art.

  

  Joshua Reynolds
  • Art
  • Genius
  • Rules

• Influence means power, and I don't want that. Whatever happens, here we do our own thing and put it out there for people to take or leave. We're not doing anything to influence them.

  

  Dakis Joannou
  • People
  • Mean
  • Influence

• The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • God
  • Money
  • Culture

• I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice - are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?

  

  Al Gore
  • Law
  • Decision
  • Challenge

• China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

  

  Jo Ann Emerson
  • Power

• I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Music
  • Power

• In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Power
  • Expectation

• The Freedom Caucus, like many of the members, feel like that we have too much of a top-heavy, power-based type of leadership program where the decisions are made exclusively at the top and that members voices are not heard, which means that our constituents' voices are not heard: those that we represent.

  

  John Fleming
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Leadership

• The marketing of XP is very deliberate and conscious. Part of it is in co-opting the power of the media; I make sure I'm newsworthy from time to time. Part is in co-opting some of my publisher's ad budget.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Time
  • Power
  • Marketing

• That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

  

  George Eliot
  • Power
  • Desiring
  • Narrower

• I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Power
  • Now
  • Defeat

• I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

  

  James Naismith
  • Money
  • Goals
  • Basketball

• With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Women
  • Strong

• The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn’t exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn’t possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Country
  • Police
  • Monster

• 'To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.'

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Why
  • Power
  • Hate

• If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Today
  • Society
  • Energy

• Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Freedom

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