Power Quotes

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

Doing the right thing has power.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.

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.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

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.