Power Quotes

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Power has no limits.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

Doing the right thing has power.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.

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.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.