Power Quotes

• I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Time
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Power
  • Giving

• It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

  

  Albert J. Nock
  • Money
  • Power

• The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

  

  Rachel Holmes
  • People
  • Great
  • Nice

• Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

  

  Noah Webster
  • Power
  • Insolent
  • Despotic

• The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Use
  • Issue

• To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

  

  Plutarch
  • Good
  • Future
  • Wisdom

• The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Political
  • Party
  • Church

• Love, money, sex or power:

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Money
  • Power
  • Sex

• My parents were the exact opposite of stage parents. They did everything in their power to keep it from happening. But it was going to happen no matter what. I was like, 'Thanks for raising me, but I'm going to take it from here.'

  

  Jennifer Lawrence
  • Power
  • Parents
  • Thanks

• Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Power
  • Justice

• Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her attorney - alone, or they just don't show up. That reflects a severe power imbalance.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Up
  • Power
  • Alone

• Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Power
  • Universe

• A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Power
  • Die
  • Breathes

• I enjoy a good reasoned argument. I love the power of logic.

  

  Luke Roberts
  • Good
  • Power
  • Logic

• There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. That's just encouraging and inspiring.

  

  Blake Lively
  • People
  • Courage
  • Encouraging

• As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our nation's workforce.

  

  Leonard Boswell
  • World
  • Success
  • Innovation

• Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Power
  • See
  • Blind Man

• I think Margaret Thatcher was a superstar in this country, and I think we all felt we needed a superstar to play her, somebody of huge intelligence, passion, and power and warmth.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Country
  • Power
  • Passion

• Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning, and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us.

  

  Claudia Rankine
  • Power
  • Black

• That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Power
  • True

• Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Power
  • Organized
  • Affects

• Friends, genuine friends, are attracted by a warm heart, not money, not power. A genuine friend considers you as just another human being, as a brother or sister, and shows affection on that level, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, or in a high position; that is a genuine friend.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Friends

• We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.

  

  George Pataki
  • Work
  • Long
  • Power

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