Power Quotes

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.

We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Prayer is mans greatest power!

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.

There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

All of the information that we were getting up to that time from the NRC people, from our people who knew something about nuclear power, was that the breach of the core was not a likelihood to happen.

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

The power of the sword, say the minority... is in the hands of Congress.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.