Power Quotes

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.