Power Quotes

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.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.