Power Quotes

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

All political power is a trust.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly.

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.