Famous Quotes
- If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
- Michel Foucault on Power
- If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
- Dalai Lama on Power
- If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
- E. Stanley Jones on Power
- If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
- James A. Garfield on Power
- If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleonora Duse on Power
- If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
- Howard Zinn on Power
- If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
- Henry A. Wallace on Power
- If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
- Mary Wollstonecraft on Power
- If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
- Clarence Darrow on Power
- If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
- Julius Caesar on Power
- If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
- Peace Pilgrim on Power
- If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
- If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.
- Julianna Margulies on Power
- Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
- J. K. Rowling on Power
- Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
- Andrew Carnegie on Power
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
- In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Power
- In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
- Fareed Zakaria on Power
- In all our associations in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
- George Mason on Power
- In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.
- Suze Orman on Power
- In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
- Marianne Williamson on Power
- In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel on Power
- In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
- A. J. P. Taylor on Power
- In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
- Marianne Williamson on Power
- In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.
- Rick Warren on Power
- In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
- Jeff Goodell on Power
- In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
- Twyla Tharp on Power
- In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on Power
- In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton on Power
- In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
- Simone Weil on Power
- In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton on Power
- In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.
- Marc Andreessen on Power
- In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.
- Rick Warren on Power
- In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
- Ken Blanchard on Power
- In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
- Robert Hall on 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.
- Jean Baudrillard on Power
- In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.
- Peter Singer on Power
- In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Power
- Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
- Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
- Carolyn Heilbrun on Power
- It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
- Herbert Hoover on Power
- It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont on 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.
- Francis Bacon on Power
- It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
- Robert A. Heinlein on Power
- It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.
- Thomas Frank on Power
- It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
- Eric Hoffer on Power
- It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
- James A. Baldwin on Power
- It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
- It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
- Wendell Willkie on Power
- It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
- Salvador Dali on Power
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