Power Quotes

• Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Power

• 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

• When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • People
  • Help
  • Hand

• We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

  

  Aristotle
  • Live
  • Immortality
  • Aspire

• It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • God
  • Rest

• Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Beauty
  • Opposites
  • Tension

• Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Power
  • Necessity
  • Neighbour

• Japan should not intervene in other countries' conflicts by using military power. And I don't think Japan is capable of doing such things. For starters, I don't believe our country has sufficient human resources to make that type of international contribution.

  

  Sadako Ogata
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Military

• I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • People
  • Time
  • Power

• The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Energy

• If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Up
  • Power

• Leadership means a wise application of military power, and rallying the world behind causes that are right. It means seeing our foreign assistance as part of our national security, not something separate, not charity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Military
  • Wise

• The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Action
  • Pay
  • Authority

• We are not here just to speak great words and then say it’s not our responsibility. We are determined to come to power.

  

  Svyatoslav Vakarchuk Okean Elzy
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Speak

• The power of the 'Muppets,' and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people's lives that I had to distance myself from publicly. Not privately... Privately, hell, I'm with them for life, and I love these people. They're my second family.

  

  Frank Oz
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men’s powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us--which is really just love for ourselves.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Children
  • Respect

• I do think that every super power on the globe has a very poor record on human rights.

  

  Ed Schultz
  • Power

• A man has two primary drives in early adulthood: one toward power, success, and accomplishment; the other toward love, companionship, and sex. Half of life then was out of order. To go before them was to stand up as a man and admit that I was only half a man.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Life
  • Up
  • Success

• All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Power

• I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that's like - everyone is a person.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Power
  • Giving

• The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Freedom

• Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

  

  Allen West
  • Together
  • High
  • Compassion

• Ideally there should not be a men’s movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women’s movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men’s movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Power

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