Power Quotes

‘Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.’ – Lao Tzu

‘Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.’ – Bruce Lee

‘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

‘The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.’ – Edmund Burke

‘Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.’ – Robert A. Heinlein

‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ – John Dalberg-Acton

‘Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.’ – Alice Walker

‘When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.’ – Paul P. Harris

‘Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.’ – Edward Abbey

‘He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘Truth is powerful and it prevails.’ – Sojourner Truth

‘Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.’ – Frederick Douglass

‘Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.’ – Mark Twain

‘Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.’ – William Plomer

‘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

‘Character is power.’ – Booker T. Washington

‘A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.’ – Frederick the Great

‘Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.’ – Charles de Gaulle

‘Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing.’ – Catherine the Great

‘Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.’ – George Washington

‘If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.’ – Peace Pilgrim

‘Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘Knowledge is power.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.’ – John Adams

‘Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.’ – Epicurus

‘Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power.’ – William Gaddis

‘Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.’ – Ayn Rand

‘No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘Power is the great aphrodisiac.’ – Henry Kissinger

‘Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.’ – Jonathan Swift

‘An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.’ – Phaedrus

‘Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.’ – William Pitt

‘Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.’ – Oskar Schindler

‘The power to question is the basis of all human progress.’ – Indira Gandhi

‘You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.’ – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

‘Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘The way to have power is to take it.’ – Boss Tweed

‘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

‘Calmness is the cradle of power.’ – Josiah Gilbert Holland

‘Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.’ – Phillips Brooks

‘Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.’ – Charles Simmons

‘Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Power ought to serve as a check to power.’ – Montesquieu

‘All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.’ – Victor Hugo

‘There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.’ – Erich Fromm

‘The greatest power is often simple patience.’ – E. Joseph Cossman

‘Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.’ – Benjamin F. Wade

‘The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.’ – Salvador Dali

‘The greatest power is not money power, but political power.’ – Walter Annenberg

‘Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.’ – Baruch Spinoza

‘Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.’ – Arnold J. Toynbee

‘But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.’ – Alan Watts

‘Power is dangerous unless you have humility.’ – Richard J. Daley

‘Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.’ – Cesare Pavese

‘The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.’ – Aneurin Bevan

‘When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.’ – Susan Sarandon

‘Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.’ – Andrew Carnegie

‘Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.’ – Andrew Young

‘My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.’ – Anita Hill

‘Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.’ – Sophie Swetchine

‘Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.’ – Alexis Carrel

‘Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.’ – Benazir Bhutto

‘Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.’ – Stendhal

‘There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.’ – Everett Dirksen

‘Force always attracts men of low morality.’ – Albert Einstein

‘No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.’ – Allen Klein

‘The only power you have is the word no.’ – Frances McDormand

‘Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.’ – Ludwig von Mises

‘Every crisis offers you extra desired power.’ – William Moulton Marston

‘What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.’ – Aristotle

‘What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘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

‘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.’ – Cher

‘What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?’ – Christopher Marlowe

‘He who has great power should use it lightly.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.’ – Don DeLillo

‘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

‘The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.’ – Bruce Lee

‘Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.’ – Epictetus

‘Whoever is new to power is always harsh.’ – Aeschylus

‘I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.’ – Alfred A. Montapert

‘The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Power in America today is control of the means of communication.’ – Theodore White

‘Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.’ – Alvin Toffler

‘No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.’ – Denis Diderot

‘Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.’ – Booker T. Washington

‘Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.’ – Nelson Rockefeller

‘Power is not alluring to pure minds.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Order is power.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.’ – William Wordsworth

‘There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.’ – John Muir

‘Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.’ – Abigail Adams

‘Prestige is the shadow of money and power.’ – C. Wright Mills

‘People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.’ – Don DeLillo

‘The eye sees what it brings the power to see.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Power is paradoxical.’ – Friedrich Durrenmatt

‘Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.’ – Alice Walker

‘Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other’s.’ – Deborah Tannen

‘Every reign must submit to a greater reign.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.’ – Ayn Rand

‘The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘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

‘Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.’ – Allen Klein

‘Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.’ – Eric Sevareid

‘America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.’ – Adam Schiff

‘Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.’ – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

‘The power of the people and the power of reason are one.’ – Georg Buchner

‘In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.’ – Pope Francis

‘Politics is not about power.’ – Paul Wellstone

‘Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.’ – George A. Smith

‘The most important thing about power is to make sure you don’t have to use it.’ – Edwin Land

‘I believe the gun has no power at all.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.’ – Lech Walesa

‘There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man’s reasoning powers.’ – Bernard Baruch

‘The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.’ – David Ogilvy

‘Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.’ – Barney Frank

‘Excessive fear is always powerless.’ – Aeschylus

‘I cured with the power that came through me.’ – Black Elk

‘I believe in the power of weakness.’ – Pat Buckley

‘Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.’ – Viktor E. Frankl

‘There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.’ – Washington Irving

‘Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.’ – John Ray

‘Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.’ – Joel Osteen

‘There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.’ – Epictetus

‘Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.’ – Kofi Annan

‘You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz

‘Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.’ – Yehuda Berg

‘Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.’ – Aristotle

‘There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.’ – Josh Billings

‘Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘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.’ – Akhenaton

‘Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.’ – Julius Caesar

‘Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.’ – Anne Frank

‘Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.’ – Robin Morgan

‘Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.’ – Voltaire

‘And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.’ – Ayrton Senna

‘Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.’ – Stephen Covey

‘Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.’ – William James

‘Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.’ – Mike Ditka

‘I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.’ – Groucho Marx

‘Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.’ – Unknown

‘Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.’ – Wilma Rudolph

‘Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!’ – David O. McKay

‘Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.’ – Mao Zedong

‘The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.’ – Chadwick Boseman

‘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

‘The power of imagination makes us infinite.’ – John Muir

‘Knowledge is power, and it can help you overcome any fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more awareness through the process, and you know what pitfalls to look for as you get ready to transition to the next level.’ – Jay Shetty

‘The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘I feel as though, if you’re able to control your dreams, you have more power and control over your mind, like you could reach more areas of your mind. Therefore, I feel like it creates the ability for you to achieve more things in reality.’ – Juice Wrld

‘Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.’ – Oliver Stone

‘Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.’ – Edgar Winter

‘Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.’ – Abigail Adams

‘Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.’ – Jim Morrison

‘The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds – but we still have the power to change our own.’ – Ally Condie

‘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

‘To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.’ – Plutarch

‘A king without power is an absurdity.’ – James Monroe

‘The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.’ – Jeremy Bentham

‘Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.’ – Tony Robbins

‘The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

‘The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘The measure of a man is what he does with power.’ – Plato

‘The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.’ – Peter A. Levine

‘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.’ – Carl Jung

‘It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.’ – James Baldwin

‘When you blame others, you give up your power to change.’ – Robert Anthony

‘This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.’ – Alice Waters

‘Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.’ – Louise L. Hay

‘Balk the enemy’s power; force him to reveal himself.’ – Sun Tzu

‘Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.’ – Alexander the Great

‘Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.’ – James Madison

‘I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.’ – Irving Berlin

‘Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.’ – Peter Drucker

‘Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.’ – William Godwin

‘The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.’ – Kailash Satyarthi

‘It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.’ – Alan Cohen

‘We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.’ – Gilbert Baker

‘I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.’ – Bad Bunny

‘Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.’ – P. V. Sindhu

‘You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.’ – Jack Black

‘A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.’ – George Meredith

‘Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.’ – Atifete Jahjaga

‘When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.’ – Rick Wilson

‘I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.’ – Patricia Cornwell

‘Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.’ – Dada Vaswani

‘All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.’ – Thomas Paine

‘Plagiarism is one of the great academic sins. It has the power to destroy a scholar or writer and turn a lifetime’s work to dust.’ – Miranda Devine

‘In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source.’ – Reinhard Bonnke

‘It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.’ – Toni Morrison

‘The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.’ – Chanakya

‘Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.’ – Guy Fieri

‘We’re taught Lord Acton’s axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don’t believe it’s always true any more. Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.’ – Robert Caro

‘All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.’ – Francis Thompson

‘Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.’ – John Steinbeck

‘The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.’ – William Booth

‘I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.’ – Mary McLeod Bethune

‘The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.’ – Tom Clancy

‘Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.’ – John Kennedy

‘Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.’ – Ice Cube

‘Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic – the strong attacking the weak.’ – Maria Konnikova

‘The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.’ – Meryl Streep

‘Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.’ – Tony Blair

‘We need women who are devoted to shepherding God’s children along the covenant path toward exaltation; women who know how to receive personal revelation, who understand the power and peace of the temple endowment; women who know how to call upon the powers of heaven to protect and strengthen children and families; women who teach fearlessly.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.’ – Martin Seligman

‘The story being told in ‘Star Wars’ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.’ – George Lucas

‘Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.’ – Queen Elizabeth II

‘The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.’ – Charlie Chaplin

‘Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.’ – Barbara Jordan

‘Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.’ – Elton John

”Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream’ is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan’s Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?’ – Alex Gibney

‘Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.’ – Shahid Kapoor

‘An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.’ – Martin Buber

‘The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.’ – David Hume

‘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

‘Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.’ – George W. Bush

‘Social media is a very, very powerful tool. It also gives power to tools.’ – Chris Young

‘To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that.’ – Carlos Castaneda

‘Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.’ – Huey Newton

‘Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt?’ – Cesare Beccaria

‘We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.’ – William E. Gladstone

‘I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.’ – Mary Shelley

‘Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.’ – Pete Carroll

‘There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes a difference and especially try to influence adults and put pressure on people in power.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.’ – Ted Nugent

‘There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.’ – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

‘The power of visibility can never be underestimated.’ – Margaret Cho

‘The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.’ – Viola Davis

‘That’s the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.’ – Brian Stokes Mitchell

‘We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.’ – Charles Stanley

‘Do not borrow the productions of other men’s brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.’ – Ellen G. White

‘The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.’ – Tariq Ramadan

‘What do I care about law? Ain’t I got the power?’ – Cornelius Vanderbilt

‘Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.’ – Rain

‘Dictators fall when they’re overconfident; they stay in power when they’re paranoid.’ – Masha Gessen

‘Color is a power which directly influences the soul.’ – Wassily Kandinsky

‘Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.’ – Rumi

‘The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.’ – Mario Puzo

‘That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.’ – Albert Einstein

‘No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!’ – Joyce Meyer

‘There’s a real power in heels and a good dress.’ – Talulah Riley

‘Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.’ – Lady Gaga

‘Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.’ – Harvey Fierstein

‘Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.’ – Theodor W. Adorno

‘Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.’ – Barack Obama

‘Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.’ – Anne Lamott

‘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

‘Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.’ – Emile Coue

‘Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.’ – Horace Mann

‘Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one’s power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.’ – Yamamoto Tsunetomo

‘To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.’ – Joan Didion

‘The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.’ – Mark Hyman

‘I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.’ – Robert Downey, Jr.

‘Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.’ – Alexander Hamilton

‘Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere – the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.’ – Tim O’Brien

‘What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.’ – Alexander Graham Bell

‘The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.’ – Klaus Schwab

‘Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept alive.’ – Morris Gleitzman

‘If the YSRCP is voted to power, agriculture sector will be given top priority. The interests of all sections of people will be protected.’ – Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

‘There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.’ – Steven Wright

‘I think people really underestimate the power of just wanting to do it, and hard work, and competitive spirit, and preparation.’ – Joe Burrow

‘Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.’ – Robert Greene

‘I have grown to appreciate the power of believing in myself and of always having faith in myself. I rarely look back; instead, I always look forward. There is so much of life that we miss when we wallow in regret.’ – Tony Bennett

‘I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.’ – Jane Seymour

‘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

‘We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.’ – Louisa May Alcott

‘I don’t blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to ’em? More power to ’em.’ – Yogi Berra

‘To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.’ – Agnes de Mille

‘The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.’ – Thomas J. Watson

‘We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.’ – Paul Kagame

‘Strong government doesn’t mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration – in other words, ‘good governance.’ – Raghuram Rajan’ – Raghuram Rajan

‘Know your power, believe in yourself and don’t let anyone dim your light.’ – Leigh-Anne Pinnock

‘It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.’ – David Brin

‘One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.’ – Cal Thomas

‘The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you.’ – Joey Jordison

‘Self-control is true power.’ – Marco Pierre White

‘The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.’ – Thomas Malthus

‘The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.’ – Bob Marley

‘Prayer is man’s greatest power! – W. Clement Stone’ – W. Clement Stone

‘The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.’ – Winston Churchill

‘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

‘Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.’ – Tom Hanks

‘Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.’ – Isaac Newton

‘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

‘I’m not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power and something looking out for me. I’ve definitely had angels that have either guided me or helped me through moments in my life, without a doubt.’ – Christian Slater

‘Not drunk is he who from the floor – Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.’ – Thomas Love Peacock

‘There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.’ – Narendra Modi

‘Life is not decided by lines on a palm but by the power of the will, hard work and discipline.’ – Milkha Singh

‘We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.’ – Young Thug

‘Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.’ – Mark McKinnon

‘Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.’ – Tyler Perry

‘With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.’ – Jon Batiste

‘The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘The point of journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable.’ – Ana Kasparian

‘What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.’ – Isabel Allende

‘Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.’ – Mark Z. Jacobson

‘There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.’ – William Henry Harrison

‘I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.’ – Ann Hood

‘What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.’ – Simon Wiesenthal

‘The power of social media is it forces necessary change.’ – Erik Qualman

‘My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.’ – Kenny Loggins

‘I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated in one place, it tends to get abused, so checks and balances are always needed.’ – Dean Ornish

‘Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.’ – Miguel de Cervantes

‘The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.’ – Sandra Day O’Connor

‘Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.’ – John Greenleaf Whittier

‘From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.’ – Jane Goodall

‘We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.’ – Maria Montessori

‘Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.’ – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

‘What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! – Joseph Pulitzer’ – Joseph Pulitzer

‘True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.’ – John W. Gardner

‘The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.’ – Origen

‘Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.’ – George Orwell

‘Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That’s in your power.’ – John Wooden

‘When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalist is to confront those who are abusing power.’ – Jorge Ramos

‘A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It’s equality, it’s fairness, and I think it’s a great thing to be a part of.’ – Zendaya

‘No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.’ – Jacob Bronowski

‘The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘There’s a difference between lust and passionate love. Lust can’t just creep in. You’ll not find it where true love exists, but it has power enough to shatter the world you’ve worked so hard to create with love, and sometimes, it suddenly changes how you perceived love to begin with. Love then doesn’t live there anymore.’ – Jennifer Winget

‘The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.’ – Swami Vivekananda

‘You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.’ – Lewis B. Smedes

‘Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.’ – Kevin O’Leary

‘Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘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

‘There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.’ – Kanye West

‘Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it’s a universal language. You don’t have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.’ – Paul Epworth

‘Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.’ – DeWitt Clinton

‘I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.’ – Socrates

‘The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I’m never afraid to speak truth to power.’ – Leymah Gbowee

‘There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.’ – John Galsworthy

‘Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.’ – Ed Koch

‘The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘Technological breakthroughs in energy storage will make renewable power cheap enough to use in more places and accelerate the move to electric cars and other electric transportation systems.’ – Brian Deese

‘There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.’ – Jackie Kennedy

‘We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.’ – Neville Chamberlain

‘You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.’ – John Berger

‘When you have real power you don’t threaten. People know what your capabilities are.’ – Dennis Kucinich

‘Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.’ – Isoroku Yamamoto

‘Speaking truth to power is actually a form of loyalty.’ – Richard N. Haass

‘The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we’re still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.’ – Michael Leunig

‘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

‘Activists need to educate themselves about the power of crypto currencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009, and use crypto to leverage the success of their independent media gains to tip the balance of power away from the troika in ways that could never happen by backing a political candidate.’ – Max Keiser

‘Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘If you don’t give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don’t hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.’ – Stephen Colbert

‘Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.’ – Pope John XXIII

‘It’s because it was at a time when women didn’t have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.’ – Marlo Thomas

‘Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.’ – Bo Bennett

‘If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.’ – John Stuart Mill

‘I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘I’m a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams, and in the absolute necessity of a support structure.’ – Julie Payette

‘Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.’ – Max Weber

‘Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it.’ – Maxine Waters

‘Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

‘I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Comebacks don’t seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God’s power to reverse the irreversible in your life.’ – Tony Evans

‘Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.’ – Robert Henri

‘Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white… They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there’s nothing they can do about it because they have no power.’ – Dav Pilkey

‘People already have bionic arms and legs that work by the power of thought. And we increasingly outsource mental and communicative activities to computers. We are merging with our smartphones. Very soon, they will just be part of the body.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.’ – Bjork

‘The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.’ – Milan Kundera

‘The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.’ – Benjamin Spock

‘I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.’ – Kevin DeYoung

‘Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.’ – Nas

‘I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful – for all of it.’ – Kristin Armstrong

‘Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.’ – Ossie Davis

‘A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he’s usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don’t know what to think of it.’ – Pusha T

‘Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you’ve impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.’ – Kirstin Maldonado

‘What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.’ – George Eliot

‘Spending time with negative people can be the fastest way to ruin a good mood. Their pessimistic outlooks and gloomy attitude can decrease our motivation and change the way we feel. But allowing a negative person to dictate your emotions gives them too much power in your life. Make a conscious effort to choose your attitude.’ – Amy Morin

‘Together, we have the power to inspire, connect, and deliver on new opportunities and rich experiences that can open doors to innovation and progress while growing global economies and increasing well-being.’ – Tae Yoo

‘Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.’ – Marsha Sinetar

‘Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.’ – Thurgood Marshall

‘Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.’ – Saul Alinsky

‘Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.’ – Logan Browning

‘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

‘Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.’ – Pericles

‘Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.’ – Preity Zinta

‘Never underestimate the power of anyone’s story… anyone’s life.’ – Abby Johnson

‘Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.’ – Seth Berkley

‘I want to stay humble, but I have to talk because the other guys talk too much, and… I understand the crazy power the UFC PR machine has.’ – Khabib Nurmagomedov

‘We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.’ – William Glasser

‘I’ve always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don’t care. I really believe we are all a part of God.’ – Olivia Hussey

‘Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys’ network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.’ – Jimmy Reid

‘There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.’ – Bill McKibben

‘If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.’ – Clarence Darrow

‘Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘I would encourage you: be informed – knowledge is power.’ – Matt Bevin

‘Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.’ – Russell Baker

‘There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’; it’s an illusion. We are all human beings, and we all have a responsibility to support one another and to discover ways of wresting the power from the very, very few people who control all the cash and all the property.’ – Roger Waters

‘I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe, how you live your life, it’s not my place to judge. I don’t have that power. I don’t want that power. It’s my place to love and to show God’s love to other people, even if they don’t live a life like I live.’ – Carrie Underwood

‘Money: power at its most liquid.’ – Mason Cooley

‘The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.’ – David Bailey

‘When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘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

‘The power of positive thinking can change your life.’ – Devin McCourty

‘One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.’ – Bonnie Raitt

‘True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.’ – Buenaventura Durruti

‘I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.’ – James Naismith

‘The end of the First World War had thrown Germany’s youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.’ – Werner Heisenberg

‘The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.’ – Franklin Pierce

‘With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It’s nothing new.’ – Judd Rose

‘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

‘Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.’ – Aaron Swartz

‘Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That’s what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.’ – Bobby Seale

‘There’s so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that’s why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.’ – Amandla Stenberg

‘I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.’ – Lata Mangeshkar

‘All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron’s. He came to power promising not to ‘bang on about Europe’ and ended up having the continent’s name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.’ – David Hepworth

‘Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.’ – Rene Descartes

‘The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.’ – James Allen

‘Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.’ – Michael C. Burgess

‘My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.’ – Carly Fiorina

‘When I wrote ‘The Giver,’ it contained no so-called ‘bad words.’ It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of ‘The Giver’; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.’ – Lois Lowry

‘Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘There is more power in unity than division.’ – Emanuel Cleaver

‘The power of prayer and faith in God is something that has guided so many of us in good times and bad.’ – Kim Reynolds

‘The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.’ – Cheryl Mills

‘When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become like hanging judges.’ – Jon Ronson

‘The best people to have power are the ones who don’t want it.’ – Kit Harington

‘Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.’ – Laura Marano

‘A ruler of men faces two possible misfortunes: if he employs the worthy, the ministers will use worthiness as a pretext to rob their ruler of his power, but if he promotes men recklessly, his affairs will be neglected, and he will not prevail.’ – Han Fei

‘Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.’ – J. B. Pritzker

‘As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.’ – Rodrigo Duterte

‘This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.’ – Dia Mirza

‘The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power.’ – Gary Zukav

‘Education is the development of power and ideal.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.’ – Nostradamus

‘I’ll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you’re actually doing things for truth’s sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you’re harmonizing with a greater power.’ – George Harrison

‘Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.’ – Robert Staughton Lynd

‘I believe in the power of shared data and technology to help build a better future.’ – Paul Allen

‘Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.’ – Thomas Sowell

‘In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it’s worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.’ – Richard Bach

‘Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.’ – Robert Charles Winthrop

‘Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.’ – Elon Musk

‘Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.’ – Alfred Adler

‘Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.’ – Kenneth Kaunda

‘Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.’ – James Madison

‘When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.’ – Chevy Chase

‘We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.’ – Carl Sagan

‘I guess I feel the most powerful when someone tries to take my power or belittle me or insult me, and it doesn’t work.’ – Stormy Daniels

‘The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.’ – Himani Shivpuri

‘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

‘Palestinians have no wealth or power.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘I think that if you don’t do the full analysis of what the origin of the electrical power is, where it comes from, how you get batteries into these cars, what the cost is in terms of CO2 and the environment, I think the analysis that we are going to save the planet with electric cars is nonsense.’ – Sergio Marchionne

‘Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.’ – Gustave Courbet

‘Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us – in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.’ – Sharon Salzberg

‘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

‘The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.’ – Aristotle

‘There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.’ – Guillermo del Toro

‘In the twilight, it was a vision of power.’ – Upton Sinclair

‘If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘There is no limit to the power of loving.’ – John Morton

‘The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy.’ – Michael Shellenberger

‘Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.’ – Wendell Phillips

‘I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.’ – Jenny Mollen

‘Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.’ – Andrea Dworkin

‘Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.’ – Vladimir Lenin

‘I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.’ – Sandra Cisneros

‘Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.’ – Rafael Correa

‘I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.’ – Carlo Ancelotti

‘Most people who are poor have their money in a bank account that earns negligible interest. With the rapid inflation that we have because of rampant government spending, the people are losing purchasing power – they’re actually becoming poorer.’ – Francis X. Suarez

‘We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.’ – Deborah Tannen

‘Words have power. Words created this universe… Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, ‘In the beginning was the word.’ In the same way, your words have creative power.’ – Bo Sanchez

‘Being at a film festival reminds me of the power of film. The power that we have in our hands. Telling specific stories about personal matters can start the debate that is needed today, and that connect you with realities that you had no idea were connected.’ – Diego Luna

‘I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.’ – Leif Garrett

‘Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I’m really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.’ – Sean Lennon

‘We now have to see our country surrender to the enemy without demonstrating our power up to 120 percent. We are now on a course for a humiliating peace – or, rather, a humiliating surrender.’ – Hideki Tojo

‘Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.’ – George William Russell

‘Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.’ – George P. Shultz

‘Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men’s lives.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘If bad and inexperienced politicians control power in Nigeria, my wealth may turn into poverty, and I am not ready to become a poor man.’ – Aliko Dangote

‘I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘I believe that every leader has a right to implement his own policy. But when I see things that are done that are not right – abuse of power, wrong approaches, wrong strategies, making use of foreign consultants, including those discarded by other countries – I feel that I have to have my say.’ – Mahathir Mohamad

‘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

‘People have to be armed to have power, you see.’ – Fred Hampton

‘Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!’ – Walter Savage Landor

‘I’m God’s chosen child. I don’t worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I’ve always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.’ – Rohit Shetty

‘No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.’ – Harry Emerson Fosdick

‘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.’ – Amy Tan

‘For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.’ – Adolfo Perez Esquivel

‘Many of the original New Deal programs required heavy manual labor. WPA workers built hundreds of schools, health clinics, roads, park facilities, and community centers. Much of what we now call our ‘infrastructure’ – highways, buildings, power plants, etc.’ – Kathi Appelt

‘Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.’ – George Ayittey

‘The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.’ – William Hazlitt

‘To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.’ – Ryan Holiday

‘Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.’ – Stokely Carmichael

‘Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.’ – Daniel Ortega

‘The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.’ – Eli Whitney

‘Putin and his advisers don’t understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don’t realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue.’ – Alexei Navalny

‘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

‘When someone asks ‘what’s the use of philosophy?’ the reply must be aggressive, since the question tries to be ironic and caustic. Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power.’ – Gilles Deleuze

‘Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.’ – Daniel Caesar

‘The power of cosmetics and the effect they can have on one’s happiness and confidence is very real.’ – Huda Kattan

‘My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.’ – J. B. Smoove

‘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

‘Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.’ – John Henrik Clarke

‘I was in ‘Iron Sky,’ the first one, and I liked it very much. I liked the technology being used. The technology has such power.’ – Udo Kier

‘If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.’ – James A. Garfield

‘It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.’ – Sitting Bull

‘Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.’ – David Grinspoon

‘The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness – even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent – will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.’ – Daniel Webster

‘As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.’ – Thomas Aquinas

‘Red is one of the strongest colors, it’s blood, it has a power with the eye. That’s why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well… In fact I use red in all of my paintings.’ – Keith Haring

‘Obviously we’re a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.’ – Daryl Hannah

‘The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.’ – Jane Austen

‘Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.’ – Alan Moore

‘What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.’ – Christopher Reeve

‘The party in power, like Jonah’s gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.’ – Davy Crockett

‘Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.’ – Ralph Nader

‘Nation should be rest assured Pakistan is a safe atomic power. No one can cast an evil eye on it.’ – Abdul Qadeer Khan

‘If we don’t change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we’ll be extinct by mid-century. I don’t say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.’ – Patch Adams

‘Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it’s true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano is assembled with wood and iron. Nuclear power uses material from nature, but it’s been manipulated by humans, and it produces something unnatural.’ – Ryuichi Sakamoto

‘Nuclear power is a young technology – there’s so much more to be discovered. That’s what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.’ – Leslie Dewan

‘I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running ‘Nobody for President’ at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. ‘Nobody keeps campaign promises.’ ‘Nobody lowers your taxes.’ ‘Nobody should have that much power.’ ‘Nobody is in Washington working for you.” – Wavy Gravy

‘Never underestimate the power of intrinsic values. They inspire every struggle for a better world.’ – George Monbiot

‘Religion is never the problem; it’s the people who use it to gain power.’ – Julian Casablancas

‘We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that’s wrong and you’ve got to do something about it, especially if you’re in a position of power, it won’t change.’ – David Oyelowo

‘With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don’t need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.’ – James Hansen

‘It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.’ – Corazon Aquino

‘Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.’ – John F. Lehman, Jr.

‘We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.’ – Les Brown

‘Obedience opens the door to the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. And the spiritual gifts and abilities activated by the power of the Holy Ghost enable us to avoid deception – and to see, to feel, to know, to understand, and to remember things as they really are.’ – David A. Bednar

‘Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.’ – Gil Scott-Heron

‘This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.’ – Joe Biden

‘He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.’ – J. Martin Kohe

‘I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.’ – Emil Cioran

‘Exercising power can do strange things to people. You can become convinced that you’re irreplaceable. You can become convinced that you’re always right. And I think the danger is the longer you stay in power, the more likely that is to happen.’ – Margaret MacMillan

‘All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.’ – Simone de Beauvoir

‘If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.’ – Maimonides

‘The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.’ – Neil Young

‘Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.’ – David Seabury

‘The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time.’ – Chris Thile

‘Politics should not be a lifelong career, and elected officials should not be allowed to fix themselves in the halls of power of a nation.’ – Pierre Poilievre

‘Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone’s face or body.’ – Devon Aoki

‘There isn’t a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he’s a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.’ – George Best

‘Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.’ – Robert Baden-Powell

‘Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.’ – William Penn

‘With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music – you can’t do that in jazz. You can’t do that with classical.’ – Serj Tankian

‘Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.’ – Marilyn French

‘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

‘The power to do good is also the power to do harm.’ – Milton Friedman

‘Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.’ – Mary Daly

‘All dogs can become aggressive, but the difference between an aggressive Chihuahua and an aggressive pit bull is that the pit bull can do more damage. That’s why it’s important to make sure you are a hundred percent ready for the responsibility if you own a ‘power’ breed, like a pit bull, German shepherd, or Rottweiler.’ – Cesar Millan

‘Israel will not tolerate Iran developing nuclear power, even if Iran claims it is for peaceful purposes. If there is an attack, oil prices will go through the roof.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.’ – Howard Schultz

‘The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.’ – M. Scott Peck

‘Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel’s song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel’s nature into us.’ – Frederick William Faber

‘Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others – its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.’ – Kevyn Aucoin

‘Leo Durocher was our manager and he brought Willie up to me and said, ‘This is Willie Mays and he’s your new roommate.’ You could see right away that this young man was a natural. He had those real big hands, great power and speed and would catch everything hit in his direction. He’s the best center fielder that ever lived, no question.’ – Monte Irvin

‘America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.’ – Nelson Rockefeller

‘It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.’ – Pierre de Fermat

‘The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.’ – Katharine Graham

‘It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.’ – Jose Saramago

‘Women are in a position now to voice their opinion… women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn’t have a daughter, I didn’t understand.’ – Snoop Dogg

‘Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.’ – Willa Cather

‘There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘I’m tired of Republicans who lay down and allow this country to be ravaged, allow Democrats to abuse their power in their positions, and I believe it’s time for Republicans to stand up for the American people and do a good job in Congress.’ – Marjorie Taylor Greene

‘I think, to me, power really is being able to have some kind of resonance and to be able to impact other people’s lives in a positive way.’ – Nicholas Galitzine

‘The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.’ – John Rawls

‘Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.’ – John Piper

‘Censorship is saying: ‘I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.’ But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.’ – Ai Weiwei

‘Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.’ – Pete Stark

‘There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.’ – Karl Popper

‘Over time, we as humans have developed a different attitude towards nature and we’ve forgotten about our inner power.’ – Wim Hof

‘To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.’ – Robert Burton

‘Do you know how many women in a survey reported experiences of sexual harassment on the job? Eighty percent. It is so common. It’s normalized. And it’s an abuse of power.’ – Maya Wiley

‘Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don’t share your ideas, smart people can’t do anything about them, and you’ll remain anonymous and powerless.’ – Vint Cerf

‘But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.’ – Edward Gibbon

‘All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.’ – Charles A. Beard

‘You can’t call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.’ – DMX

‘I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.’ – Christopher Lee

‘Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.’ – John Wycliffe

‘Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn’t have a space program, so they’re not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don’t want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.’ – Candace Bushnell

‘Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.’ – Rosa Luxemburg

‘The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.’ – Felix Frankfurter

‘Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.’ – Bernard Law Montgomery

‘The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.’ – Robert Zubrin

‘The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.’ – Glenn Greenwald

‘The Environmental Protection Agency’s first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants will create clean- energy jobs, improve public health, bring greater reliability to our electric power grid, bolster our national security, demonstrate the United States’ resolve to combat climate change and maybe even reduce our utility bills.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people.’ – William Binney

‘A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.’ – Jacki Weaver

‘The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.’ – Mark Hopkins

‘A word after a word after a word is power.’ – Margaret Atwood

‘Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.’ – Maggie Kuhn

‘It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.’ – William Wilberforce

‘To live happily is an inward power of the soul.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider… That thought was our power.’ – Joshua Chamberlain

‘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

‘I’m not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.’ – Paris Hilton

‘Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men – particularly if they are married – knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.’ – Oswald Mosley

‘Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘We all have so much more power to make our dreams a reality – and love life along the way – than we think we do!’ – Rachele Brooke Smith

‘Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘If surveillance, censorship and propaganda are the three pillars of authoritarianism, information, organization and leverage are the counter-pillars of citizen power. And the Internet provides the best and most appropriate infrastructure for strengthening all three.’ – Zeynep Tufekci

‘I work out only with my trainer. And I make sure to do a lot of power training. For me, fitness is more about being on the ground rather than being in a gym.’ – Dinesh Karthik

‘Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.’ – Richard Holloway

‘If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.’ – Vinoba Bhave

‘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

‘Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.’ – Charlie Munger

‘There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view – you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values – may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.’ – Condoleezza Rice

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.’ – Richard Paul Evans

‘It’s not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It’s what resides inside.’ – Fred Rogers

‘Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture – great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don’t see.’ – Dan Brown

‘Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.’ – Voltaire

‘Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.’ – Baltasar Gracian

‘The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.’ – Susan B. Anthony

‘Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn’t him. This is not him.’ – Michael Jackson

‘Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘God gave me the power. God showed me the way. He helps me and gives me support and it’s my job to get that message out.’ – Charles Oliveira

‘Now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion – more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.’ – Hugh Prather

‘As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.’ – Ayanna Pressley

‘Don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.’ – Leroy Hood

‘This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?’ – Steve Jobs

‘The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.’ – Roseanne Barr

‘For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it’s doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It’s amazing. And it’s free. I love it. It’s absolutely brilliant.’ – Simon Cowell

‘I’m not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn’t bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.’ – William Clay Ford, Jr.

‘Power wears out those who don’t have it.’ – Giulio Andreotti

‘The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it’s amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.’ – Dolores Huerta

‘What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.’ – Steve-O

‘You will not tell me that you accept me. You will not tell me that you tolerate me. That is not your power. I take that from you. You will respect me for who I am.’ – Dominique Jackson

‘We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.’ – Calvin Coolidge

‘Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.’ – Paracelsus

‘For me, collages manage to – it satisfies all of my madness, like I’m able to make these obsessive things, but then I’m also able to make these very strong statements. I don’t know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there’s sort of a power.’ – Wangechi Mutu

‘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

‘It’s a life’s journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.’ – Mariska Hargitay

‘Presidential powers are not exercised by a body or group. The Constitution vests ‘all executive power’ in one and only one person – the president.’ – William Barr

‘Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We’ll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.’ – Ralph Merkle

‘I learned a long time ago, Don’t ever doubt the power of Taylor Swift.’ – Scott Borchetta

‘What I count as real prosperity… is the growth in a knowledge of God, and in a testimony, and in the power to live the gospel and to inspire our families to do the same. That is prosperity of the truest kind.’ – Heber J. Grant

‘What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.’ – Lionel Trilling

‘When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That’s its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.’ – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

‘In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and even the power to be.’ – Rollo May

‘I live out of my van, which gives me a first-hand appreciation for power and lighting. A few years ago, I rebuilt the interior of my van to include solar panels and a battery that powers LEDs for lighting and allows me to charge my phone and laptop.’ – Alex Honnold

‘To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.’ – Friedrich August von Hayek

‘Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.’ – Larry Page

‘To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.’ – Jefferson Davis

‘The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.’ – Immaculee Ilibagiza

‘There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.’ – Julie Taymor

‘No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.’ – John Jay

‘Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.’ – Said Nursi

‘To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.’ – George MacDonald

‘The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who understands power politics. It’s always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.’ – Tucker Carlson

‘As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.’ – Zygmunt Bauman

‘I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.’ – Billy Graham

‘At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.’ – Georges Jacques Danton

‘I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.’ – Theodore Dreiser

‘Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really well.’ – Frances Arnold

‘For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.’ – Brian Skerry

‘Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we’re here: We’re here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.’ – Rainn Wilson

‘More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.’ – Ezra Furman

‘Every day alive in the ‘Power’ world is a beautiful day.’ – Brandon Victor Dixon

‘The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.’ – Jules Verne

‘I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven’t sat in the corners of power.’ – Lori Lightfoot

‘I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.’ – Saint Patrick

‘The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.’ – Matt Drudge

‘There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.’ – Walt Whitman

‘I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story – about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.’ – Fernando Flores

‘The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.’ – Frederick Law Olmsted

‘A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.’ – Henry A. Wallace

‘Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.’ – Orson F. Whitney

‘The virtue of Love is nothing and all, or that Nothing visible out of which All Things proceed. Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God.’ – Jakob Bohme

‘Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.’ – Vine Deloria, Jr.

‘I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.’ – Thomas Hooker

‘I want everybody to know that I don’t care who you are, where you’re from, if you’re popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.’ – Rozonda Thomas

‘The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.’ – Sheryl Lee

‘The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.’ – Colin Wilson

‘We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.’ – Rutherford B. Hayes

‘Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.’ – Richard Jefferies

‘Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.’ – Ariel Dorfman

‘A cult is a religion with no political power.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.’ – Paulina Rubio

‘I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.’ – Nellie Bly

‘How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?’ – Robert Plant

‘Why should any man have power over any other man’s faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?’ – George Fox

‘The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.’ – Giacomo Casanova

‘I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.’ – Ma Jian

‘You can be very feminine and be a leader. Christine Lagarde, she’s very chic and she dresses very well, and she’s a woman. And she has a lot of power.’ – Carolina Herrera

‘As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media’s power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.’ – Steven Van Zandt

‘When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.’ – James Madison

‘Hydropower is a clean and renewable energy source that provides affordable power throughout the country.’ – Seth Moulton

‘In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool – how it keeps you cool when you’re hot, warm when you’re cold, dry when you’re wet.’ – Anthony Doerr

‘You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.’ – William Lloyd Garrison

‘Music’s staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.’ – Gary Wright

‘Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘We want to overthrow the imperial power not because it is Manchurian but because we want republicanism… We republican revolutionaries can never have the notion of becoming emperors after the revolution, like all the peasant rebels did in the past.’ – Sun Yat-sen

‘During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.’ – Thomas Hobbes

‘The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.’ – Mohammed Morsi

‘In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.’ – Bruce Lipton

‘That mighty Being, who heaped up these craggy rocks, and reared these stupendous mountains, and poured out these streams in all directions, and scattered immortal beings throughout these deserts – He is present, by the influence of his Holy Spirit, and accompanies the sound of the gospel with converting, sanctifying power.’ – Adoniram Judson

‘My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor’s guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: ‘Don’t enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.’ I feel childlike somehow.’ – Alysia Reiner

‘Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.’ – Edward de Bono

‘If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?’ – Sydney J. Harris

‘Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.’ – Susan L. Taylor

‘Media is a double-edged sword and has the power to change hearts and minds through authentic storytelling as well as the power to paint a person, or an entire community, in a dim and misleading light.’ – Angelica Ross

‘Cash – in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits – is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.’ – Suze Orman

‘Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.’ – John Roberts

‘I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.’ – Arthur C. Clarke

‘I couldn’t have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.’ – Hope Solo

‘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

‘The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.’ – Andy Biersack

‘There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers… It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.’ – Samuel Gompers

‘It is important to remember that a thought is harmless unless we believe them and act on them. As the subject, since thoughts are an object of your awareness, you have the power to challenge every thought. You can decide if you want to make that thought real.’ – Elizabeth Thornton

‘Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a ‘physics’ or ‘anatomy’ of power, a technology.’ – Michel Foucault

‘I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society’s care.’ – Camille Paglia

‘If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.’ – Jocko Willink

‘We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.’ – Richard Rohr

‘This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.’ – John Quincy Adams

‘With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.’ – Billy Mitchell

‘Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.’ – Barbara Corcoran

‘I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.’ – David Attenborough

‘Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon.’ – Michael Pollan

‘Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.’ – Kate Chopin

‘The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.’ – John Maynard Keynes

‘I’ll always identify with the image of a strong woman. I believe that in what I do and in my sense of self, there’s a vindication of women. There’s power.’ – Rosalia

‘The abuse of power in the film and television industry is a tale as old as time. I’ve lost count of the amount of times I have attended professional meetings with someone in a more powerful position than myself under the pretence of work.’ – Keeley Hazell

‘The power of the computer is starting to spread.’ – Bill Budge

‘What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media… So we must try to use social media in a good way.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal… I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn’t have power, didn’t have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.’ – Goodluck Jonathan

‘Getting past my early 20s, I feel a bit more maturity and responsibility about that stuff. You get a good feeling from doing something good. You see a kid and you make his day, you realise the power of it. Whereas before, I was like, ‘That’s cool, whatever.’ But now, that’s what I’m most appreciative of.’ – Daniel Ricciardo

‘High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power.’ – Joseph Stiglitz

‘All women are forces of nature, and I believe in their power.’ – Stephanie McMahon

‘Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.’ – Ethel Watts Mumford

‘Ultimately, the power of the Airbnb platform is that it motivates guests to blend into communities, belong anywhere, and live like locals.’ – Joe Gebbia

‘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

‘While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day.’ – Robert E. Lee

‘People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who’s had any experience in life knows these things.’ – Norman Finkelstein

‘I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.’ – Anne Bronte

‘I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it’s a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I’m gonna do it whether it’s hard or easy.’ – Faith Ringgold

‘Crime, money, power, drugs – are all linked.’ – Matthew Vaughn

‘I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it’s not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.’ – Quincy Jones

‘I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.’ – Jose Andres

‘The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.’ – Robert Shea

‘The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power – God.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.’ – James F. Byrnes

‘Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don’t want it to ever end.’ – Gwen Stefani

‘India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.’ – Sri Aurobindo

‘The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.’ – Winston Churchill

‘I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.’ – Robert Greene

‘We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.’ – Tony Robbins

‘We have it in our power to begin the world over again.’ – Thomas Paine

‘There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.’ – John Adams

‘There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.’ – Plato

‘I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.’ – George Washington

‘I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.’ – Ayn Rand

‘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

‘Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.’ – John Stuart Mill

‘Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.’ – Hannah Arendt

‘And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.’ – John Dalberg-Acton

‘Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.’ – James Madison

‘The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?’ – John Muir

‘New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.’ – Joan Didion

‘Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.’ – Hideki Tojo

‘The ‘anti-globalisation movement’ is the most significant proponent of globalisation – but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.’ – Alice Walker

‘Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘I’ve been reading this little book. It’s called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don’t want to hear those who say we’re appealing to the authorities. Who’s the power here?’ – Alexei Navalny

‘The only real power comes out of a long rifle.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘Words have a lot of power.’ – Juice Wrld

‘Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.’ – Joel Osteen

‘The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.’ – Aristotle

‘I discovered that no revival comes if we don’t preach the Word of God under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. If we only have the Great Commission and only the Holy Spirit, we have power without purpose, or purpose without power. It is a package deal, and that is what God honors.’ – Reinhard Bonnke

‘By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.’ – Mark Zuckerberg

‘Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.’ – Julius Caesar

‘Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.’ – Peter Drucker

‘The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.’ – Alexander Hamilton

‘The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.’ – Lao Tzu

‘Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.’ – Kofi Annan

‘Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.’ – Thomas J. Watson

‘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

‘I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.’ – Harvey Fierstein

‘Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.’ – William Pitt

‘The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.’ – Toni Morrison

‘Power does not change you, it unmasks you.’ – John Kennedy

‘Words, without power, is mere philosophy.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.’ – John Adams

‘You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.’ – W. Clement Stone

‘It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.’ – Winston Churchill

‘The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.’ – Thomas Hobbes

‘The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.’ – Montesquieu

‘I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘The point of power is always in the present moment.’ – Louise L. Hay

‘The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.’ – James Madison

‘An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.’ – Robert Greene

‘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

‘The law always limits every power it gives.’ – David Hume

‘Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.’ – Henry Kissinger

‘Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.’ – Louisa May Alcott

‘The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.’ – Chanakya

‘I don’t think people understand the power of social media or our phones.’ – Zendaya

‘Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist.’ – Erich Fromm

‘The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.’ – James Monroe

‘Liberal: a power worshipper without power.’ – George Orwell

‘Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.’ – James Baldwin

‘We ain’t gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we’re gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we’re gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution.’ – Fred Hampton

‘Power is competence.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘God’s grace is amazing! We’re saved by grace – God’s undeserved favor – and we live by grace, which is also God’s power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it’s all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.’ – Tony Robbins

‘When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.’ – John Galsworthy

‘There’s nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.’ – Voltaire

‘Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people.’ – Michael Shellenberger

‘The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.’ – James Allen

‘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

‘Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.’ – Robert Caro

‘Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority – not the capture of moral high ground.’ – Masha Gessen

‘I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‘Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?” – Jane Goodall

‘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

‘Competition, by itself, always leads to cheating by the powerful, who try to establish pyramids of power, like feudalism. Yet, competition is the great creative force! So how do we save it from its own contradictions? By cooperation! By cooperating with each other, via politics, to make rules and prevent cheating, so that competition can thrive!’ – David Brin

‘Every account of a higher power that I’ve seen described, of all religions that I’ve seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.’ – Baruch Spinoza

‘Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘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

‘As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.’ – Barack Obama

‘We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.’ – Theodor W. Adorno

‘We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long – such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.’ – Gary Zukav

‘If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant.’ – Cesare Beccaria

‘To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.’ – Peace Pilgrim

‘Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.’ – William Henry Harrison

‘It’s a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn’t think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘The great question of our time is, ‘Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?” – Billy Graham

‘Social acceptance, ‘being liked,’ has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.’ – Rollo May

‘Donald Trump, like many cult leaders, understands the power his words will have over the minds and actions of his followers… but few cult leaders have a pet media infrastructure.’ – Rick Wilson

‘I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.’ – Stephen Covey

‘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

‘I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.’ – Plutarch

‘What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.’ – Daniel Webster

‘We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.’ – Narendra Modi

”The Prince’ was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. ‘Rules for Radicals’ is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.’ – Saul Alinsky

‘The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.’ – Joe Biden

‘The notion of superhumans is using bioengineering and artificial intelligence to upgrade human abilities. If they use the power to change themselves, to change their own minds, their own desires, then we have no idea what they will want to do.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘The media’s power is frail. Without the people’s support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.’ – Corazon Aquino

‘Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.’ – Milton Friedman

‘The ruler who possesses methods of government does not follow the good that happens by chance but practices according to necessary principles. Law, methods, and power must be employed for government: these constitute its ‘necessary principles.” – Han Fei

‘The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.’ – Joshua Chamberlain

‘Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.’ – James Madison

‘She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don’t ourselves experience.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘When God created man and woman, he was thinking, ‘Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?’ And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.’ – Aristotle

‘The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.’ – Thomas Paine

‘Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.’ – John Adams

‘Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.’ – Plato

‘The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.’ – Hannah Arendt

‘One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.’ – Alexei Navalny

‘The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.’ – John Stuart Mill

‘The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.’ – John Dalberg-Acton

‘I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.’ – Joan Didion

‘The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.’ – George Washington

‘Knowledge and human power are synonymous.’ – Francis Bacon

‘There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘From the point of the view of the nation’s power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.’ – Hideki Tojo

‘Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.’ – Winston Churchill

‘There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.’ – Voltaire

‘Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.’ – George Orwell

‘Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.’ – James Madison

‘Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.’ – Tony Robbins

‘A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.’ – Robert Greene

‘I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.’ – Thomas Hobbes

‘Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘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

‘We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.’ – John Adams

‘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.’ – Aristotle

‘If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche