Power Quotes
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I need quick, easy, and healthy meals that can power me through the day. I also try to eat locally grown and organic food as much as possible - it's the best for me and the environment.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
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If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.
Nancy Gibbs
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The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.
Jason Segel
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It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
Randall Terry
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Money is power and power gives you choice.
Sam Rockwell
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Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.
Marianne Williamson
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I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.
Lily Cole
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Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
Daisaku Ikeda
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It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
Barbara Castle
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People abusing their power makes me see red.
Neil Jackson
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We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.
Aloe Blacc
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
Buffalo Bill
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I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other.
Mary Lambert
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
Boris Pasternak
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.
Ana Castillo
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.
John D. Rockefeller
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We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.
Martin Luther
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I would look down on my own achievements and make myself smaller for boyfriends and I'll say it's fucking exhausting and I have no time for that. I've been kind of embracing my own power and really getting in touch with my inner goddess.
Ashnikko
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We're both about defense, but I don't have the strong power he has in Joseph Jones.
Gary Blair
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There are two fairly standard approaches to political power used by those who seek it. Some seek power with the assumption that the citizenry are the source of legitimacy and are to be treated with respect. Others concentrate on identifying whatever insecurities there are within the citizenry and on exploiting them.'
John Ralston Saul