Power Quotes

• The Gujarat government knows what's in the interest of consumers. When they plan, they ensure they can save every single rupee or earn every single rupee for the state government and bring power at lowest cost to the consumer. They are tightfisted in their approach.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • Power
  • Single

• To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not like the reproduction of living plants, and of animals which have senses. For all these we see reproducing their own species from their own seeds; and a stone does not do this at all. We never see stones reproduced from stones; ... because a stone seems to have no reproductive power at all.

  

  Albertus Magnus
  • Power
  • Stones
  • Reproduction

• Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Power
  • Military

• There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

  

  Zephyr Teachout
  • Long
  • American
  • Democracy

• If you're an opposition party, you are actively using the power you have to oppose the ideas of the other party.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Power
  • Party

• To understand political power aright, and derive from it its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Political

• I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Knowledge
  • Community
  • Football

• Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

  

  James Dyson
  • Power

• I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.

  

  Jim Gilmore
  • Power

• A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Life
  • Men
  • Death

• When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • Writing
  • Power

• There is more power in unity than division.

  

  Emanuel Cleaver
  • Power
  • Unity

• Colonial possessions added to the prestige, and to a much lesser degree to the wealth, of Europe. But the primary cause of Western affluence and power is internal – the institutions of science, democracy, and capitalism acting in concert.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Power
  • Science
  • Democracy

• Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Power
  • Christianity
  • Socialism

• I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves.

  

  Francis Fukuyama
  • Country
  • History
  • Political

• “In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.”

  

  Anne Royall
  • Power
  • Priests
  • Aimed

• Dream BIG dreams! Only big dreams have the power to move your mind and spirit.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Moving

• Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.

  

  Common
  • Power
  • Fun
  • Words

• Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,The power of beauty I remember yet.

  

  John Dryden
  • Power
  • Remember

• I'm not doing this because I want to be famous and not because I want any power. In this country, the power is always with the people; the people we govern on borrowed time. I want to serve. My parents taught me to give back to the community.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Try to keep your mouth shut until you have a job offer, especially if your move is not entirely certain. There are only a few cases in which I think it would be appropriate to tell your boss what's going on. For example, if your spouse is being forced to relocate, obviously you are going to go, and if you have a good relationship with your boss, then it might take some stress off of you to tell the truth. The general rule, though, is not to give your employer more power over your destiny than you have yourself.

  

  Alexandra Levit
  • Power
  • Destiny
  • Employer

• There's no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.

  

  James Mattis
  • Power
  • American
  • Military

• If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.

  

  Peter MacKay
  • Power

• Those unknown heroes whose whitened bones have been piously gathered here, and whose green graves we now strew with sweet and beautiful flowers, choice emblems alike of pure hearts and brave spirits, reached, in their glorious career that last highest point of nobleness beyond which human power cannot go. They died for their country.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Country
  • Career
  • Beautiful

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