Power Quotes

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power.

And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out.

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.

The women are at an advantage - we represent the buying power in this country.

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.