Power Quotes

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

'Lost Boys' is one of my all-time faves. I just thought it would be great to be a vampire. I remember this movie called 'Once Bitten,' which is about an '80s sort of power girl who became a vampire and was really, like, sexy. Hair like she was from 'Dallas,' shoulder pads, big earrings.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.