Power Quotes

• Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

  

  Eliza Farnham
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Church

• If men were meant to be a dominant power, men would be on this earth by themselves. So, I don't understand when women's rights are challenged - because you're talking about human rights. You talk about subjugating an entire culture that we heavily depend on for everything we need for survival.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • Men
  • Women
  • Earth

• B.O.Y. means ‘Beware of You’… Be aware of your power. We have the choice to live positively or in our own destruction.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Choice
  • Means
  • Destruction

• However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Power
  • Deep
  • Devil

• The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

  

  Ely Culbertson
  • World
  • Power

• Ideas... they have the power.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Power
  • Ideas

• I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Thinking
  • Hand
  • Responsibility

• Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Power

• Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Work
  • God
  • Done

• The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Character
  • True
  • Two

• The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Age
  • House
  • Responsibility

• When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• The true power of love is found in selfless attitudes and actions that seek the best for another person without expecting anything in return. When we act in that way, the feeling of love follows close behind.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • True
  • Feeling
  • Action

• Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.

  

  Eduardo Paes
  • Long
  • Power
  • Political

• I would use the power of procurement, I would say if you want to do business with the mayor of London, you must pay your staff a London Living Wage.

  

  Sadiq Khan
  • Business
  • Power

• I think as more women are in positions of power, more people of color are in positions of power, the stories become more inclusive; the casts become more inclusive.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • People
  • Women
  • Color

• Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Soul
  • Relationship
  • Health

• I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock and roll, and when I came in and auditioned for the Broadway revival of 'Hair,' I had no eyebrows - kind of a Bowie-esque glimmer kid. And it was hard representing the flower power era when we were stone cold punks.

  

  Annie Golden
  • Rock
  • Hair
  • Training

• Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.

  

  Jefferson Davis
  • People
  • Power

• People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Live
  • Political

• It’s not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power

• I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

  

  Gene Roddenberry
  • People
  • Money
  • Free

• Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of privilege that I had grown up with. That whole belief... that you will only be able to advance if you are perfectly behaved, if you present yourself as what white people would consider an ideal of whiteness... all of that just began to burst open.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

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