- 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
- When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
- When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
- Julia Margaret Cameron on Power
- When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
- Shakti Gawain on Power
- When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
- Robert Anthony on Power
- When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
- Mark Zuckerberg on Power
- When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
- Jeanne Moreau on Power
- When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
- Susan Sarandon on Power
- Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
- M. Scott Peck on Power
- Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
- James Madison on Power
- Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
- Khalil Gibran on Power
- Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
- Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
- James Madison on Power
- Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
- Oriana Fallaci on Power
- Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
- Mason Cooley on Power
- Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
- Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
- Cesare Pavese on Power
- Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Power
- Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
- Thomas J. Watson on Power
- With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
- William Wordsworth on Power
- With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.
- Andrew Shue on Power
- With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
- Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
- Jon Meacham on Power
- Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
- Emile M. Cioran on Power
- Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
- William Cobbett on Power
- Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.
- Dee Dee Myers on Power
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- Virginia Woolf on Power
- Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
- Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
- Thomas Carlyle on Power
- Words derive their power from the original word.
- Meister Eckhart on Power
- Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Power
- Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
- Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Power
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