Power Quotes

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them.

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.

During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.