Power Quotes

• No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Power
  • Man

• There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Money
  • Power
  • Rest

• I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Powerful
  • Personality
  • Strength

• Press and Internet freedom correlate against economic and social success, GDP, innovation, number of patents filed, and educational attainment. The more freedom there is, the more information, the more choice, and ultimately, more power for each individual.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Success
  • Freedom
  • Innovation

• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Humanity
  • Happiness

• As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Freedom
  • Design
  • Ambition

• I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Remember
  • Black
  • Kitchen

• I think water seeks its own level, that we go through challenges to become better. And now more than ever, it's good to look at who you're following in any type of hierarchy or institution - be it a church or the government. We can see how easy it is for people to lose their footing when they have great power.

  

  Lynn Whitfield
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Free
  • Government
  • April

• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Labor

• We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Hand

• Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• I love and adore men. I think their energy is so sexy, and fabulous, and active. But the imbalance in the male and female power is deadly. It is literally taking us to extinction.

  

  Kamala Lopez
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Energy

• Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Money
  • Power
  • Limits

• The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Capture

• The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Action
  • Human Mind
  • No Control

• But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Happiness

• The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • People
  • Black
  • Forever

• It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • Up
  • Women
  • Power

• The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.

  

  Cynthia P. Schneider
  • Power
  • Society

• Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Experience
  • Community
  • Control

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