Power Quotes

In so-called primitive societies there are two words for power, mana and taboo: the power which crea...

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe...

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe...

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and ...

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social medi...

When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to th...

A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her frien...

Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you...

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent ...

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Many people in this country who want to see us the minority, and who don’t want to see us taking too...

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion o...

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's ...

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him exce...

One morning indeed, I felt a sudden misgiving that she not only had left the house but had gone for ...

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly al...

Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even...

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. P...

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's somethin...

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it...

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you ...

Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.I thin...

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's somethin...

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only th...

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Whenever the balance of power was unequal, there was a driver and a driven. Power was the lethal vic...

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

He pulled back on the bridle, stopping in disbelief. “Your love for him has damaged your senses.”“An...

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of po...

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every he...

The  thought system which dominates our culture is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing thos...

Over the years we seem to have become habituated, even addicted, to the notion of radical threat, th...

Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we ha...

Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a ha...

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness...

On the night of New Year’s Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year’s resolution for the men who run t...

But what help is it to us to look into the constellation of truth? We look into the danger and see t...

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impracti...

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

We can all get more together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power. Power is the abil...

Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living thi...

Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For i...

I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more ...

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shorew...

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

It is easier to call the storm from the empty sky than to manipulate the heart of a man; and soon, i...

England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine...

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry,...

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most power...

All empires fall, eventually.” “But why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opp...

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they ...

Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and hu...

Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and hu...

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating...

... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of phy...

I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from mo...

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice...

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see,...

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.

Power to the peaceful!

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that ...

If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fam...

Those who have come into Formula One without experiencing cars devoid of electronic aids will find i...

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the...

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed wi...

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of powe...

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavi...

Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.

everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent

In a sense, I am a moralist, insofar as I believe that one of the tasks, one of the meanings of huma...

The institution of monarchy developed during the Middle Ages against the backdrop of the previously ...

We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms, it ‘excludes’, it...

The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his lif...

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any kno...

The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not...

I'm struck by the difficulty I had in formulating it. When I think back now, I ask myself what else ...

Where there is power, there is resistance.

[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what con...

We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 1...

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful tha...

I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and...

They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indiffe...

I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...

There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life ...

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of ...

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and g...

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And ...

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of relig...

Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the app...

Men have the power in everything: journalism, acting, direction; in banks, finances, schools. All th...

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of s...