Power Quotes

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Power wears out those who don't have it.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Every white man in this country has been raised with a false sense of power.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.