Power Quotes

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.