Power Quotes

• Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Power
  • Inhumanity
  • Keynote

• One element, however, tends to go flagrantly missing in even the most vivid conspiracy theories about the banking system, let alone in official accounts: that is, the role of military power. There's a reason why the wizard has such a strange capacity to create money out of nothing. Behind him there is a man with a gun.

  

  David Graeber
  • Money
  • Why
  • Alone

• I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

  

  Maya Rudolph
  • People
  • Writing
  • Women

• Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Leaders
  • Anticipation
  • Losers

• This quarterback Weeden can drive the ball down field. He's a thing of beauty on throwing a football. His passing motion and his arm, frankly, you won't see a more gifted passer, power, accuracy, the entire aspect of it.

  

  Jerry Jones
  • Power
  • Football

• No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Power
  • Today
  • Church

• Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Power
  • Like
  • Broken

• A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

  

  Marjorie Holmes
  • Hand
  • Wisdom
  • Tenderness

• The power of God is the worship He inspires.... The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • God
  • High
  • Hope

• Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

  

  Edwin Clarence Riegel
  • Money
  • Control
  • Government

• The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

  

  Jerry Rubin
  • Power

• A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Exercise

• Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men
  • Political
  • Fear

• I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• God has power to create, or destroy, make, or unmake at his pleasure, to give life, or send death, to judge all, and to be judged nor accountable to none: to raise low things, and to make high things low at his pleasure, and to God are both soul and body due. And the like power have Kings; they make and unmake their subjects: they have power of raising, and casting down: of life, and of death: judges over all their subjects, and in all causes, and yet accountable to none but God only.

  

  King James I
  • Life
  • God
  • High

• We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Power

• Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

  

  Daniel Schorr
  • Secret
  • Secrecy
  • Power Corrupts

• I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

  

  Katherine Paterson
  • Book
  • Power

• ... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

  

  Archibald Cox
  • True
  • Disobedience
  • Compels

• There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Great
  • Power

• The greater the power, the greater the responsibility in its exercise.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Exercise

• David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

  

  Lord George Gordon
  • Power

• The awful bottom line, of course, is that if you’re going to rule the world, you have to have absolute power, and everybody knows what absolute power does.

  

  Kage Baker
  • World
  • Power

• My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power-not with ground forces.

  

  Curtis LeMay
  • Age
  • Stop
  • Air

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