Famous Quotes
- The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo on Power
- The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
- Vaclav Havel on Power
- The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
- Stanley Kubrick on Power
- The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
- Joseph Conrad on Power
- The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
- Carol P. Christ on Power
- The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
- Nikola Tesla on Power
- The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
- Michel Foucault on Power
- The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.
- Mitt Romney on Power
- The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
- John Ruskin on Power
- The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine on Power
- The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
- Robert Frost on Power
- 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.
- Thomas Huxley on Power
- The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
- Milan Kundera on Power
- The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
- Charles De Montesquieu on Power
- The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
- Craig T. Nelson on Power
- The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
- Thomas Malthus on Power
- The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
- William James on Power
- The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
- Charles De Gaulle on Power
- The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
- Henry A. Wallace on Power
- The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
- William Penn on Power
- 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.
- Christopher Nolan on Power
- The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
- E. B. White on Power
- 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.
- Dan Quayle on Power
- The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
- Roseanne Barr on Power
- The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
- Oprah Winfrey on Power
- The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
- Thomas J. Watson on Power
- The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw on Power
- The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
- Rush Limbaugh on Power
- The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
- James Madison on Power
- The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
- Shimon Peres on Power
- The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein on Power
- The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on Power
- The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
- Swami Vivekananda on Power
- The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
- Peace Pilgrim on Power
- The way to have power is to take it.
- Boss Tweed on Power
- The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
- The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.
- William Hague on Power
- The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
- John F. Kennedy on Power
- The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Power
- The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
- The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
- The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
- Herbert Read on Power
- The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.
- Sloane Crosley on Power
- Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
- Henry A. Wallace on Power
- There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
- Samuel Johnson on Power
- There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
- J. William Fulbright on Power
- There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.
- Doris Humphrey on Power
- There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau on Power
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