Power Quotes

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

I believe in the power of weakness.

The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.