Power Quotes

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

The power of social media is it forces necessary change.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

My role on the planet is to bring the power of sound.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.