- The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
- The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
- Augustus Hare on Power
- The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
- Jonathan Swift on Power
- The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
- Mason Cooley on Power
- The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill on Power
- The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
- Jon Meacham on Power
- The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
- W. E. B. Du Bois on Power
- The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Power
- The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
- Jeremy Bentham on Power
- The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
- Georg Buchner on Power
- The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on Power
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
- James A. Baldwin on Power
- The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
- Margaret Cho on Power
- The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
- Jerry Rubin on Power
- The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
- Milton Friedman on Power
- The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
- Indira Gandhi on Power
- The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
- Charles Evans Hughes on Power
- The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
- Kenneth Kaunda on Power
- The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
- John Ruskin on Power
- The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
- Edward Gibbon on Power
- The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
- Noam Chomsky on Power
- The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
- Aneurin Bevan on Power
- The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
- Colin Powell on Power
- The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
- Walter Scott on Power
- The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
- Anita Hill on Power
- The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
- Felix Frankfurter on Power
- The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.
- The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
- George Eliot on Power
- The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.
- Thomas Hobbes on Power
- 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
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