Power Quotes

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

If I could have a special power in real life I'd love to fly.

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!