- Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
- Nancy Chodorow on Power
- Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
- Oprah Winfrey on Power
- People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
- Edmund Burke on Power
- People demand freedom only when they have no power.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Power
- People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
- Imran Khan on Power
- People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
- Don DeLillo on Power
- People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
- Don DeLillo on Power
- People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
- Jennifer Aniston on Power
- People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
- Albert Bandura on Power
- Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
- Irving Babbitt on Power
- Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
- Paul Harris on Power
- Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
- William James on Power
- Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
- Pope Paul VI on Power
- Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
- Robert Collier on Power
- Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
- Paul Engle on Power
- Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
- Mao Zedong on Power
- Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
- Alice Walker on Power
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
- Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
- Fareed Zakaria on Power
- Politics is not about power.
- Paul Wellstone on Power
- Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.
- Paul Wellstone on Power
- Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
- Denis Diderot on Power
- Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
- John Adams on Power
- Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
- John Adams on Power
- Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
- George A. Smith on Power
- Power and speed be hands and feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Power
- Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
- Hannah Arendt on Power
- Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
- Gloria Steinem on Power
- Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
- Frederick Douglass on Power
- Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton on Power
- Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
- George Bernard Shaw on Power
- Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
- John Steinbeck on Power
- Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
- William Gaddis on Power
- Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
- Jill Scott on Power
- Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
- Orison Swett Marden on Power
- Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Power
- Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
- Ralph Nader on Power
- Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
- Theodore White on Power
- Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
- Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
- Honore De Balzac on Power
- Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
- Edward Abbey on Power
- Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
- Richard J. Daley on Power
- Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
- Wole Soyinka on Power
- Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky on Power
- Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher on Power
- Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Power
- Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
- Jonathan Swift on Power
- Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
- George Orwell on Power
- Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson on Power
- Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
- Michel Foucault on Power
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