Power Quotes

• It's not a question of size, of whether it's a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate.

  

  Charlotte Casiraghi
  • Power
  • Small
  • Question

• If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • World
  • Experience
  • Parents

• I don't believe that you have to dress in a masculine way to seem powerful. I think that the way a woman dresses doesn't have to be so aggressive. Being feminine is a powerful feature in itself. Power is in a person's demeanor.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Powerful

• You remember what a fabulous success court-ordered 'desegregation' plans have been. Few failures have been more spectacular. Illiterate students knifing one another between acts of sodomy in the stairwell is just one of the many eggs that had to be broken to make the left's omelette of transferring power from states to the federal government.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Remember
  • Success
  • Broken

• China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • Power
  • Free

• We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Time
  • Bad
  • History

• Learning how to contract your power and personality is of incredible importance.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Personality

• If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

  

  Jim Parrack
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Lies

• Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?

  

  Lori Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

  

  John Keegan
  • People
  • Great
  • Men

• My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • Great
  • Country
  • Energy

• I find films incredibly emotional. That's the power of the medium.

  

  James Marsh
  • Power
  • Emotional

• The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

  

  Dawn Powell
  • War
  • Death
  • Comedy

• This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, less than half its kinetic energy, less than half its brain power.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Country
  • Energy
  • Brain

• When I first came to Wakefield Cathedral, I thought, 'How does man conceive to build something like this?' It's a building that has transcended time over the centuries, and you appreciate the magnitude of humankind's power and vision. When you're inside, you feel as though the rest of the world doesn't exist.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Time
  • World
  • Rest

• I think people in power have a vested interest to oppose critical thinking.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Power

• Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

  

  Billy Sunday
  • Business
  • Fighting
  • Dirty

• Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Control
  • Violence

• My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Hope
  • Feeling
  • Sad

• I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • House
  • Girl
  • Planning

• Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Power
  • Manipulation

• For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • Power
  • Political

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