Power Quotes

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.