Power Quotes

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

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

From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.