Power Quotes
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Beauty is a horrible power.
Faina Ranevskaya
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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
Honore de Balzac
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Anarchy is a free society where there is no concentrated or centralized power, no State, no king, no emperor, no ruler, no president, no magistrate, no potentate of any character whatever. Law is the enslaving power of man.
Albert Parsons
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Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.
Dalai Lama
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Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.
Anthony Robbins
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If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
John Calvin
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Power is the recognition of necessity.
Abraham Rotstein
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Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and both of these are suspected by the one who has been raised to power.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
Ruth Gordon
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What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.
Akhenaton
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I love long power walks in the countryside.
Alice Temperley
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The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.
Phyllida Lloyd
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There are billions of barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf. There is even more in Alaska. There is enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years. The Democrats say all this American energy is off limits.
John Barrasso
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We all have the power to be influencers.
Milana Vayntrub
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Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's responsibility, to dismantle the structures that keep white people in positions of power. We do our job to thrive, to survive. To protect ourselves, to sit together and feel better and to heal.
Kelela Mizanekristos
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In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers, is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.
Peter Drucker
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Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.
James Salter
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen
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Once involved in the school-prayer fight, I rapidly became aware of, and appalled by, the political and economic power of the Church in America -all based on the violation of one of our nation's canon laws: the separation of church and state.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Simple molecules combine to make powerful chemicals. Simple cells combine to make powerful life-forms. Simple electronics combine to make powerful computers. Logically, all things are created by a combination of simpler, less capable components. Therefore, a supreme being must be in our future, not our origin. What if "God" is the consciousness that will be created when enough of us are connected by the Internet?!!
Scott Adams
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The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.
John Ruskin
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Khalil Gibran
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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw
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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
Friedrich Nietzsche