Power Quotes

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited as the British monarchy.

Charles James Fox
- Power
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

Oscar Wilde
- Why
- Effort
- Courage

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

James L. Buckley
- World
- God
- Today
I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that give me the most power and the most strength.

Jillian Rose Banks
- Real
- Power
- Pain
Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

Petra Kelly
- Power
- Strength
- Shared
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'

Arthur Scargill
- Life
- Father
- Words
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Bella Abzug
- Women
- Power
- Nature
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

John Stuart Mill
- World
- Power