Power Quotes

• 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 see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Power
  • Feel
  • Communication

• 'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • Power
  • Sometimes

• It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state’s Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Men
  • True
  • Nature

• Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Happy
  • Woman

• 'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Funny
  • Wish

• It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Power
  • Army
  • Size

• Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Free
  • Doing
  • Believing

• Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Good
  • May
  • Power

• Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Love
  • Evil
  • Strength

• If you walk into a room that's bro'd up, and you're in power, bring more women into the room.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Up
  • Women
  • Power

• I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Future
  • Earth
  • Energy

• Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Truth
  • Philosophy
  • Philosophical

• The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Country
  • Law

• My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Small

• Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Men
  • Live
  • Food

• Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Power
  • Thoughts

• I knew what it was at last-the visible manifestation of my will. My power, inherited from my god ancestors and distilled through generations of humanity, given shape and energy and potential. That was all magic was, really, in the end. Possibility. With it I could create anything, provided I believed.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • God
  • Energy
  • Humanity

• It may be in our sexuality that we are most easily enslaved, both men and women. It may be there, even as free men and women, that we find freedom hardest to keep. The politics of the flesh are the roots of power.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

  

  Denise Juneau
  • Believe
  • School
  • Kids

• The harpy smiles. A harpy’s smile is an ugly thing, even seen edge-on. The harpy says, You do not have the power to make me not alone, Desiree.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Smiles

• 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

• My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.

  

  Platon Antoniou
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Father

• I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Power
  • Think
  • Down

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