Power Quotes

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

Knowledge is power.

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.