Power Quotes

All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

Well I knew JD could go out there and knock the guy out because in training I told JD all the time that he has height, reach and size and he has the power. JD has such a right hand, his right hand is like wow, oh man it is bad.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.