Power Quotes

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.

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.