Power Quotes

• Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

  

  Plato
  • Power
  • Wish

• How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Peace
  • Desire
  • Flower

• There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right … Or put it another way, 'The future of computer power is pure simplicity.'

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Future
  • Simple
  • Simplicity

• Progressivism is a spectrum; it’s not an ideology following one leader saying one thing. It’s many people who have very wildly diverging opinions about many things. But, as progressives, if we could commit to a general frame of reference that we are about improving the quality of life for a lot more people, we’re about helping working and middle-class people, and we’re about taking care of poor people, we could really make some inroads in political power in this country. But, if we choose to be purists, if we choose to be arguing for a consensus we will never reach, for agreement on every point, it’s never going to happen.

  

  Urvashi Vaid
  • People
  • Political
  • Progressives

• In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

  

  Ken Blanchard
  • People
  • Today
  • Past

• The Williams sisters, they have this power. They have this ability to come back from nowhere.

  

  Elena Vesnina
  • Power

• Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to wear crippling foot fashions. This keeps them too busy with corns and bunions to compete in the job market.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• It would be foolish to assert that there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will be quite another than that of the religious age: I shall be the enemy of every higher power, while religion teaches us to make it our friend and be humble toward it.

  

  Max Stirner
  • Age
  • Friend
  • Religious

• This is the fundamental problem with the ruling class in Washington, D.C. - the party bosses, the K Street crowd, the lobbyists who control all these politicians. They will do anything to maintain their power. They will do anything. They will say anything.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Power
  • Control
  • Party

• The denial of female aggression is a destructive myth. It robs an entire gender of a significant spectrum of power, leaving women less than equal with men and effectively keeping them 'in their place' and under control.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Men
  • Women
  • Control

• We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.

  

  John T. Flynn
  • Long
  • Power
  • Today

• Acheson 'never for one moment believed that the holding of office was a source of power – it was an obligation of service.'

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Power
  • Service

• All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

  

  James Buchan
  • Power

• God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.

  

  William Gurnall
  • God
  • Son
  • Blood

• Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.

  

  Tacitus
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Guilt

• Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Experience
  • Power

• There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.

  

  Alison Croggon
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Renunciation

• Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we’re small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what we do. If we think we’re magnificent creatures with an infinite abundance of love and power to give, then we tend to behave that way. Once again, the energy around us reflects our state of awareness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Small
  • Energy
  • Thoughts

• Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

  

  John Adams
  • People
  • Power

• If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Judgement

• F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Power

• From an early age, my father stressed the power of the image, and he encouraged me to carefully control my own. He advised me, for example, never to be photographed from below, an often unflattering angle for women.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Women
  • Age
  • Father

• Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • People
  • Power
  • Technology

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