Power Quotes

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

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

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.