Famous Quotes
- We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
- Tavis Smiley on Power
- We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
- Cornel West on Power
- We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
- Mary McLeod Bethune on Power
- We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
- Carl Sagan on Power
- We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
- Thomas Paine on Power
- We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- John F. Kennedy on Power
- We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
- William E. Gladstone on Power
- 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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Power
- We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
- Benjamin Carson on Power
- We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.
- Jonathan Safran Foer on Power
- We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
- Jean De La Bruyere on Power
- We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
- Neville Chamberlain on Power
- We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
- Manuel Puig on Power
- We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
- Gloria Steinem on Power
- Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
- William J. Clinton on Power
- Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
- Alice Walker on Power
- Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.
- Hillary Clinton on Power
- Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
- Marilyn French on Power
- Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
- Wole Soyinka on Power
- Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.
- Louis C. K. on Power
- Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
- Vine Deloria, Jr. on Power
- What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
- Henry George on Power
- What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
- Isabel Allende on Power
- What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
- Barack Obama on Power
- What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Power
- What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Power
- What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.
- Eric Cantona on Power
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
- What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
- Christopher Reeve on Power
- What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
- Salman Rushdie on Power
- What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
- Orison Swett Marden on Power
- What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
- Lucy Powell on Power
- 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.
- Freeman Dyson on Power
- What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
- What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Power
- What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
- Alexander Graham Bell on Power
- What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
- C. S. Lewis on Power
- Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.
- James Buchan on Power
- When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
- Billy Graham on Power
- When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
- Norman Vincent Peale on Power
- When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
- Maggie Gallagher on Power
- When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.
- Julia Child on Power
- When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
- Michael Ende on Power
- When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
- Jeff Goodell on Power
- When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
- Rene Descartes on Power
- When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
- Margaret J. Wheatley on Power
- When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
- John F. Kennedy on Power
- When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
- Emile Coue on Power
- 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.
- William Hague on Power
- When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix on Power
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