Power Quotes
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The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.
Rene Descartes
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In the age of globalisation, pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.
Jose Manuel Barroso
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Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.
Nancy MacLean
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We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.
P. J. O'Rourke
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America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.
Anohni
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Everything is generated through your own will power.
Ray Bradbury
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It seemed so obvious that abusing the power of the page, and that was a phrase that was bandied about, 'the power of the page', that any abuse would be career suicide.
Bob Merrill
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Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
Heraclitus
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The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.
Bill Clinton
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A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
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What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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There is a tendency to feature more actresses on covers, but I'm a big model lover. I grew up watching these models, and they gave me the wish, the need, to work in the fashion industry. I loved watching them - their beauty, the way they worked in front of the camera and that power of transformation, especially in the Seventies.
Francois Nars
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The last time we were here, we were backing off and cutting back in power and you could feel it. But everybody's the same out there.
Helio Castroneves
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To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident... themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.
Olaf Stapledon
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After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.
W. S. Gilbert
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Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.
Georgia Harkness
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Jesus was a teacher, in a way. I mean, essentially, Jesus was a teacher. He was teaching people. He was helping them see themselves for what they were. He was helping them see their power, their strength, their beauty, what they're capable of.
Haaz Sleiman
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I think that fiction has a certain power.
Jesmyn Ward
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“When we consider the works of creation, and think of the power manifested in them, we are contemplating the power of redemption.”
Ellet J. Waggoner
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It is one broken person talking to another broken person. And there is power in that.
Ed Dobson
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It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.
Margaret Stohl
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I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.
Amanda Warren
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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William E. Gladstone
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The Antichrist is often identified with the second beast in the Book of Revelation that arises from the land, the beast that tries to make everyone worship the power of evil.
Elaine Pagels