Power Quotes

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.

There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

The only power you have is the word no.

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.