Power Quotes

The greatest power is often simple patience.

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it?

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority.

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The only people who attain power are those who crave it.

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.