Power Quotes

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.