Power Quotes
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Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.
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It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.
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And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.
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Carlyle! Carlyle only raises questions he cannot answer, and seems best contented if he can make the rest of us as discontented as himself; and all the others, all, that is, who have any power at all, fight beside religion, either as if it were not worth saving, or as if it had nothing to do with them.
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When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.
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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.
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The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.
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Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
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This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.
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I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.
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The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.
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It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power that extend the paternalistic bias of their work in new ways.
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Find out what my Individual Divine and Unique Power IS and offer it outwards in harmony with all life!
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Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.
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Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.
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Words have a lot of power.
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Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite your passion.
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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
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If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
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An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation.
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We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
