Famous Quotes
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
- Hannah Arendt on Power
- Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.
- Jerry Saltz on Power
- Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Power
- Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
- Madame De Stael on Power
- Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
- Scott Adams on Power
- Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson on Power
- She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw on Power
- Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
- Charles De Gaulle on Power
- Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.
- Mitt Romney on Power
- Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
- Benjamin F. Wade on Power
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
- Henry Adams on Power
- Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
- Charlize Theron on Power
- Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
- Bryant H. McGill on Power
- Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
- Doug Coupland on Power
- Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
- Arnold J. Toynbee on Power
- Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
- Og Mandino on Power
- Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
- Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
- Mike Ditka on Power
- Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
- Peter Drucker on Power
- Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
- Jonathan Sacks on Power
- Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.
- Marc Andreessen on Power
- That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- Albert Einstein on Power
- That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.
- Dee Dee Myers on Power
- The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
- Neil Young on Power
- The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
- Noam Chomsky on Power
- The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
- Toni Morrison on Power
- The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
- David Ogilvy on Power
- The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
- Theodor Adorno on Power
- The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
- Spiro T. Agnew on Power
- The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
- Paul Wellstone on Power
- The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Power
- The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.
- John Podhoretz on Power
- The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
- Jon Meacham on Power
- The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein on Power
- The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
- David Bailey on Power
- The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
- Pearl S. Buck on Power
- 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.
- George W. Bush on Power
- The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
- Lewis Mumford on Power
- The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
- Benjamin Spock on Power
- The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
- John Podhoretz on Power
- The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
- Jeff Goodell on Power
- The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
- The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
- George Washington on Power
- The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
- Thomas Jefferson on Power
- The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
- Daniel Webster on Power
- The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
- Tom Clancy on Power
- The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.
- Kenny Loggins on Power
- The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
- Franklin Pierce on Power
- The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
- Francis Bacon on Power
- The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
- John Maynard Keynes on Power
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