Power Quotes

• The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.

  

  Björn Ulvaeus ABBA
  • Power
  • Jesus

• Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Struggle

• Time will change who is in power.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • Time
  • Power

• Feminism is universal. You can't just fight for one type of freedom or one type of female power. You know what? Muslim women want to cover up, and we have to fight for our right to do that, too.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Women
  • Freedom

• Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

  

  David Liss
  • Time
  • Forever
  • Practice

• Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.

  

  Ciara
  • Life
  • Power
  • Education

• There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

  

  Charles Handy
  • History
  • Voluntarily
  • Constituent

• I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.

  

  Bertrand Piccard
  • Learning
  • Water
  • Air

• I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Great
  • City
  • Wall

• You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Power
  • You
  • Powerful

• The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he Saddam Hussein is in power.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Long
  • Power
  • War

• Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Desire
  • Common
  • Office

• What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Player
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Power
  • Political
  • Politician

• I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • People
  • Up
  • Words

• The power of the computer is starting to spread.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Power

• Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to the main's frequency in such a way that, without ever jeopardising the temperature of your butter, they tend to take power at times that help the grid.

  

  David J. C. MacKay
  • Up
  • Power
  • Help

• A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he's usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don't know what to think of it.

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton
  • Good
  • Power
  • Evil

• No one is going to tell me I'm too small to do whatever, to do anything. That's not up to them, and I'll never give anyone that power to say that.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Up
  • Power
  • Small

• Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Crazy
  • Fighting
  • Dying

• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Catastrophe
  • Atom
  • Modes

• In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Power
  • Expectation

• One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • Country
  • Power

• Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Never
  • Personality
  • Lyric

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