Power Quotes

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The only people who attain power are those who crave it.

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.

When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.