Over Quotes

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

The law has no power over heroes.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.