Power Quotes

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

I believe in the power of weakness.

The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.

What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.

This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.