Power Quotes

• The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing events. That's why they hate politicians so much, because politicians have direct power and they do not.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Hate
  • Events
  • Politicians

• Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Mean
  • Air
  • Moral

• And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

  

  George Carey
  • Up
  • World
  • America

• We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Done
  • Past
  • Real Talk

• I don't want to be too power-hungry.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Power

• Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Why
  • Light
  • Stop

• Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

  

  William Moulton Marston
  • Challenges
  • Crisis
  • Offers

• One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.

  

  Rachel Holmes
  • People
  • Power

• Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Space
  • Galaxy

• Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy.

  

  Annabel Park
  • Power
  • Problem
  • Democracy

• We know the Republicans are happy to keep the country in the dark, and if we Democrats are to recapture the power necessary to assert our values, we must find the energy, courage, creativity and unity to map out a brighter day for the people we sincerely want to serve.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • People
  • Country
  • Happy

• How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • Money
  • Faces

• Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Power
  • Divides
  • Estrangement

• Nothing is impossible to the mind. All it's guidance and power are available to you. When you fully realize that thought causes all, you will know there are never any limits that you yourself do not impose.

  

  Uell Stanley Andersen
  • Mind
  • Causes
  • Limits

• As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America is going to free itself from our dependence on foreign oil. Not through short-term gimmicks, but through a real, long-term commitment to transform our energy sector.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Energy
  • Oil

• The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Business

• True power is stillness within motion.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Motion
  • Stillness

• You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Trying
  • motivation
  • Pants

• See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Power
  • Truth

• We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Power
  • Evil
  • Spell

• Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

  

  Carol Roth
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

  

  John Wycliffe
  • God
  • Age
  • Poverty

• We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Character
  • Nature

• With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people.

  

  Dave McClure
  • People
  • Great
  • Responsibility

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