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Clint Eastwood | Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. | 101 |
Epicurus | It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. | 101 |
Jimi Hendrix | When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. | 101 |
Niccolo Machiavelli | He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command. | 101 |
Kofi Annan | Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. | 101 |
Vaclav Havel | 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. | 101 |
Abigail Adams | Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. | 101 |
Aung San Suu Kyi | 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. | 101 |
James A. Baldwin | It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. | 101 |
Maria Montessori | 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. | 101 |
P. J. O'Rourke | 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. | 101 |
Albert Bandura | 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. | 101 |
Bo Bennett | 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. | 101 |
Bonnie Raitt | Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet. | 101 |
Carlos Castaneda | 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. | 101 |
Dan Brown | 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. | 101 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox | 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. | 101 |
Emile M. Cioran | However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice. | 101 |
Fredrik Bajer | By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. | 101 |
Gordon Brown | Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world. | 101 |
Hanna Rosin | Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others. | 101 |
Harvey Fierstein | 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. | 101 |
Havelock Ellis | 'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. | 101 |
Henry Cabot Lodge | The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence. | 101 |
Herb Kelleher | Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility. | 101 |
Isaac D'Israeli | Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance. | 101 |
Jamaica Kincaid | Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion. | 101 |
Jill Scott | I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is. | 101 |
Katharine Graham | 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. | 101 |
Kristin Armstrong | 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. | 101 |
Lee Kuan Yew | China is a vast, disparate country; there is no alternative to strong central power. | 101 |
Leroy Hood | 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. | 101 |
Lord Acton | Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. | 101 |
Martin Buber | An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. | 101 |
Mary McLeod Bethune | 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. | 101 |
Meryl Streep | The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. | 101 |
Mike Ditka | Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. | 101 |
Nick Rahall | Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer. | 101 |
Olivia Hussey | 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. | 101 |
Park Geun-hye | All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power. | 101 |
Paul Harris | Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless. | 101 |
Pete Carroll | 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. | 101 |
Questlove | I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents. | 101 |
Rebecca MacKinnon | The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power. | 101 |
Theresa May | There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums. | 101 |
Tom Clancy | 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. | 101 |
Ueli Gegenschatz | Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.' | 101 |
Walter Murch | I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality. | 101 |
Washington Irving | 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. | 101 |
William Godwin | Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. | 101 |
William Pitt | 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. | 101 |
Yamamoto Tsunetomo | 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. | 101 |
Yehuda Berg | 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. | 101 |
Yochai Benkler | We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine. | 101 |
Yukihiro Matsumoto | From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer. | 101 |
Zac Goldsmith | A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power. | 101 |
Alex Gibney | '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? | 101 |
Ben Folds | The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you. | 101 |
Charles de Secondat | But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. | 101 |
Charles Simmons | Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. | 101 |
Chris Squire | The flukey part of it is, back in the early days, I had that guitar decorated with all kinds of crap wallpaper, 'Flower Power' - then that got all shaved off. And during the course of cleaning the bass up again, some of the wood got shaved down, and it probably became a lighter body than the stock factory model. | 101 |
Dada Vaswani | 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. | 101 |
Dario Fo | It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control. | 101 |
David Brainerd | I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God. | 101 |
David Brin | 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. | 101 |
David McCandless | Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth. | 101 |
Edgar Winter | Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. | 101 |
Emanuel Cleaver | There is more power in unity than division. | 101 |
Ethel Watts Mumford | Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. | 101 |
Francis Thompson | 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. | 101 |
Geri Halliwell | 'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe. | 101 |
Jason Mraz | I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go. | 101 |
John Acton | Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. | 101 |
John Caudwell | The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure. | 101 |
Joseph Prince | Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. | 101 |
Michael Eric Dyson | I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence. | 101 |
Mohsin Hamid | We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains. | 101 |
Rafael Correa | To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending. | 101 |
Randeep Hooda | Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it. | 101 |
Robin Morgan | Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. | 101 |
Roseanne Barr | The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. | 101 |
Richard C. Armitage | The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along. | 101 |
Tadashi Yanai | As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change. | 101 |
Tom Scholz | 'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict. | 101 |
Tony Kushner | I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about. | 101 |
Vine Deloria, Jr. | Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. | 101 |
William McDonough | Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power. | 101 |
A. J. P. Taylor | 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. | 101 |
Akhenaton | 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. | 101 |
Bill McKibben | 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. | 101 |
Boss Tweed | The way to have power is to take it. | 101 |
Clay Aiken | My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. | 101 |
Colin Wilson | The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. | 101 |
Dennis Cardoza | In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. | 101 |
Eleonora Duse | 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. | 101 |
Frederick Henry Hedge | Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. | 101 |
Garet Garrett | Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power. | 101 |
Harry Shearer | If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? | 101 |
Henry J. Heinz | Heart power is stronger than horsepower. | 101 |
Jack Black | You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow. | 101 |
Leif Garrett | I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make. | 101 |
Ludivine Sagnier | I'd say people recognize me, but having children recognize me is the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you have the power to make the children's dreams come true, and it's better than anything else. | 101 |
Marvin Sapp | Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir. | 101 |
Mary Boykin Chesnut | Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world. | 101 |
Megan Smith | The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising. | 101 |
Naomi Benaron | Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other. | 101 |
Richard E. Grant | I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that. | 101 |
Robert Staughton Lynd | Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. | 101 |
Sam Rockwell | I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg. | 101 |
Sarah Kay | Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices. | 101 |
Tavis Smiley | We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts. | 101 |
William Gaddis | Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. | 101 |
Alfred Marshall | The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. | 101 |
Atifete Jahjaga | 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. | 101 |
Bob Schaffer | The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated. | 101 |
Charles A. Beard | 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. | 101 |
Douglas Hyde | As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. | 101 |
Elizabeth Hardwick | The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. | 101 |
George A. Sheehan | We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. | 101 |
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel. | 101 |
Jessica Valenti | Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged. | 101 |
John Ray | Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. | 101 |
Julie Taymor | There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence. | 101 |
Kohei Uchimura | I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there. | 101 |
Lauren Myracle | Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to. | 101 |
Lucy Griffiths | I fight like Bruce Lee. I train in his style of kung fu, wing chun. It's all about fighting with controlled power, so you learn to punch correctly. | 101 |
Pawan Kalyan | Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself. | 101 |
Richard Dreyfuss | Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded. | 101 |
Samantha Stosur | Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport. | 101 |
Tarja Halonen | Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future. | 101 |
William Plomer | Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. | 101 |
Alva Myrdal | I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people. | 101 |
Breyten Breytenbach | The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests. | 101 |
Cal Thomas | One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. | 101 |
Georg Groddeck | One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps. | 101 |
George Schultz | Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. | 101 |
Jacob Bronowski | No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. | 101 |
John Jay | No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. | 101 |
Josh Brolin | It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things. | 101 |
Lee Kun-hee | Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class. | 101 |
Pete Stark | 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. | 101 |
Richard Paul Evans | Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery. | 101 |
Ruzwana Bashir | The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators. | 101 |
Sal Albanese | I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge. | 101 |
Susan Powter | If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer. | 101 |
Thomas Hughes | Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. | 101 |
Tom Ridge | You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead. | 101 |
Alan Keyes | Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients. | 101 |
Cai Guo-Qiang | For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome. | 101 |
Conrad Burns | Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look. | 101 |
Dawn Powell | The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). | 101 |
Leon Foucault | The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down. | 101 |
Stephanie McMahon | A lot of people know about the power of the WWE brand. We're in 145 countries in 30 different languages. We reach about 650 million households worldwide on a global weekly basis. But what they don't know about WWE is that we use all of that power to give back to the community through events like Hurricane Sandy Relief. | 101 |
Thomas Hooker | I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good. | 101 |
Jenny Mollen | I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time. | 101 |
Charlotte Lennox | The law has no power over heroes. | 101 |
DeWitt Clinton | 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. | 101 |
Doris Humphrey | There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. | 101 |
John Morton | There is no limit to the power of loving. | 101 |
John Rawls | The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. | 101 |
Sergei Udaltsov | We will not leave this place until our comrades are free. We are the power here. We are the power. | 101 |
Jessie Pavelka | I tell my clients to feel powerful - you and only you own your power. You are the one who can make yourself eat right, work out and not touch the biscuits. | 101 |
John F. Lehman, Jr. | Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. | 101 |
Jonathan Turley | People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power. | 101 |
Mark Hopkins | 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. | 101 |
Mark Z. Jacobson | 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. | 101 |
John Avlon | I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over. | 101 |
Jose Serrano | We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law. | 101 |
Maria Weston Chapman | Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom. | 101 |
Jimmy Reid | The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people. | 101 |
Jodie Evans | I feel truth, beauty, love, grief, anger, intimacy & alive in my body... Women in the global south live in their bodies much more than we in the global north. Not as distracted by patriarchy's controlling images - They know power is in their bodies. I am deeply grateful for the women who showed me the way home. | 101 |
James Prescott Joule | After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork. | 101 |
Judd Rose | With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new. | 101 |
Francis Bacon | Knowledge is power. | 102 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | 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. | 102 |
Gloria Steinem | Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. | 102 |
J. K. Rowling | 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. | 102 |
John Stuart Mill | 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. | 102 |
Malcolm X | The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. | 102 |
Hannah Arendt | 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. | 102 |
James Madison | Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. | 102 |
Jeff Sessions | The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong. | 102 |
John Steinbeck | Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. | 102 |
Aneurin Bevan | The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. | 102 |
Barbara Kruger | I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. | 102 |
Benazir Bhutto | Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. | 102 |
Black Elk | I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see. | 102 |
Buenaventura Durruti | 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. | 102 |
Carly Fiorina | 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. | 102 |
Catherine the Great | Power without a nation's confidence is nothing. | 102 |
Christopher Lee | I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers. | 102 |
Christopher Reeve | 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. | 102 |
David Bailey | The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. | 102 |
Elizabeth Edwards | You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. | 102 |
Emmeline Pankhurst | Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent. | 102 |
Franklin Pierce | 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. | 102 |
Fredric Jameson | For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US? | 102 |
Garry Kasparov | It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game. | 102 |
Harry Browne | The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices. | 102 |
Isaac Barrow | That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively. | 102 |
James Dyson | Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes. | 102 |
Joan Didion | Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. | 102 |
Leon Panetta | I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world. | 102 |
Lord Acton | Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. | 102 |
Louisa May Alcott | You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. | 102 |
Mary Shelley | I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. | 102 |
Michio Kaku | Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future. | 102 |
Noreena Hertz | Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people. | 102 |
Norman Finkelstein | 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. | 102 |
Nostradamus | 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. | 102 |
Oliver Tambo | Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. | 102 |
Oskar Schindler | I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. | 102 |
Oswald Mosley | 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. | 102 |
Patricia Cornwell | I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power. | 102 |
Penn Jillette | If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe. | 102 |
Phaedrus | An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. | 102 |
Pope Benedict XVI | The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power. | 102 |
Sandra Cisneros | I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom. | 102 |
Theodore White | Power in America today is control of the means of communication. | 102 |
Tiberius | To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand. | 102 |
Walter Martin | The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity. | 102 |
William Clay Ford, Jr. | 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. | 102 |
William E. Gladstone | 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. | 102 |
William Pitt | Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. | 102 |
Yochai Benkler | Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors. | 102 |
Agnes de Mille | 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. | 102 |
Alice Waters | This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive. | 102 |
Andrea Dworkin | 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. | 102 |
Anselm Kiefer | History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history. | 102 |
Bart Starr | Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude. | 102 |
C. Wright Mills | Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions. | 102 |
Christian Slater | 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. | 102 |
David O. McKay | Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! | 102 |
David Ogden Stiers | Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. | 102 |
George Meredith | A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. | 102 |
Jeanne Moreau | When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art. | 102 |
John Acton | The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. | 102 |
John Ensign | Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become. | 102 |
John W. Gardner | True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. | 102 |
Jonathan Sacks | 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. | 102 |
Josiah Gilbert Holland | Calmness is the cradle of power. | 102 |
Kenny Loggins | My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward. | 102 |
Kevin DeYoung | 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. | 102 |
Li Ka-shing | Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. | 102 |
Mark Hyman | The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital. | 102 |
Robert Caro | You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy. | 102 |
Soichiro Honda | I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run. | 102 |
Sophie Swetchine | There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. | 102 |
Stacy Schiff | Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater. | 102 |
Tony Snow | To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes. | 102 |
W. H. Murray | Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. | 102 |
William Scranton | When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant. | 102 |
Annie Jump Cannon | Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all. | 102 |
Cathy McMorris Rodgers | This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills. | 102 |
Dav Pilkey | 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. | 102 |
Garet Garrett | Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. | 102 |
Gary Wright | Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. | 102 |
George A. Smith | Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. | 102 |
Kim Dae Jung | And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon. | 102 |
Ma Jian | I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet. | 102 |
Mary Astell | The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence. | 102 |
Nelson Rockefeller | 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. | 102 |
Pierre de Fermat | But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it. | 102 |
Ralph Merkle | 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. | 102 |
Ramez Naam | I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world. | 102 |
Steve Forbes | There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result. | 102 |
Will Hermes | Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, 'I'm New Here,' doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones. | 102 |
Ashley Rickards | I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that. | 102 |
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown. | 102 |
Carol P. Christ | The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power. | 102 |
Kenneth Kaunda | The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. | 102 |
Marcus du Sautoy | The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. | 102 |
Michael Merzenich | My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment. | 102 |
Robert Conklin | If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals. | 102 |
Ron Kind | For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome. | 102 |
Shannen Doherty | If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard. | 102 |
Sri Aurobindo | She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. | 102 |
Adam Rickitt | After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through. | 102 |
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun | Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. | 102 |
David Seabury | 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. | 102 |
Mary Daly | Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. | 102 |
Max Stirner | Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience. | 102 |
Stefan Zweig | Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral. | 102 |
Tom Brown, Jr. | Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power. | 102 |
Bernard Katz | For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception. | 102 |
Blaine Lee | The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. | 102 |
Michael Ende | When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. | 102 |
Mike May | I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall. | 102 |
Jacky Ickx | And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power. | 102 |
Anne Frank | 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. | 103 |
Carl Sagan | 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. | 103 |
Edgar Allan Poe | Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. | 103 |
Henry A. Wallace | 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. | 103 |
Leo Buscaglia | 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. | 103 |
Margaret Thatcher | Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. | 103 |
Michel Foucault | 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. | 103 |
Thomas Hobbes | 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. | 103 |
Vladimir Putin | We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources. | 103 |
Joel Osteen | 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. | 103 |
John Adams | Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. | 103 |
Mark Zuckerberg | By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent. | 103 |
Benazir Bhutto | Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance. | 103 |
Benjamin F. Wade | I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road. | 103 |
Cesar Millan | 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. | 103 |
Daniel Webster | The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. | 103 |
Don Miguel Ruiz | 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. | 103 |
Douglas Rushkoff | Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's, and the little red tab means Levi's, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh. | 103 |
Ed Koch | 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. | 103 |
Edward Gibbon | But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. | 103 |
Erin Gruwell | Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change. | 103 |
Frederick the Great | A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. | 103 |
George Mason | In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. | 103 |
Hope Solo | I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness. | 103 |
Howard Zinn | 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. | 103 |
Huey Newton | Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. | 103 |
Irving Berlin | 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. | 103 |
Kevin O'Leary | Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital. | 103 |
Kid Rock | I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them. | 103 |
Lincoln Steffens | Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it. | 103 |
Louis Sullivan | Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. | 103 |
Max Weber | Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance. | 103 |
Millard Fillmore | Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power. | 103 |
Morihei Ueshiba | 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. | 103 |
Nancy Gibbs | A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. | 103 |
Neville Chamberlain | 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. | 103 |
Newt Gingrich | You can't trust anybody with power. | 103 |
Oliver Stone | Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. | 103 |
Patrick Henry | We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. | 103 |
Paul Davies | Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. | 103 |
Paul Pierce | My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and he always used to tell me stories about Barkley and college. And I watched Barkley growing up. I loved what he brought to the game. His toughness and just his attitude, being as strong he was. | 103 |
Pete Carroll | The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it. | 103 |
Ramana Maharshi | It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them. | 103 |
Rick Warren | It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family. | 103 |
Robert Plant | 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? | 103 |
Roger Ebert | Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory. | 103 |
Steven Van Zandt | 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. | 103 |
Stokely Carmichael | An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan. | 103 |
Virginia Postrel | Neon signs don't consume much power, but they look like they do. A cousin of fluorescent lighting, neon is actually quite energy efficient. A neon tube glows coolly when high-voltage, low-amperage electrical power excites the gas within it. | 103 |
William H. Seward | It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it. | 103 |
Aaron Swartz | Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. | 103 |
Alan Cohen | 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. | 103 |
Chuck Hagel | Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations. | 103 |
Cindy Sheehan | Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power. | 103 |
David Brainerd | Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace. | 103 |
David R. Brower | I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams. | 103 |
E. Joseph Cossman | The greatest power is often simple patience. | 103 |
Erik Qualman | The power of social media is it forces necessary change. | 103 |
Geri Halliwell | I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example. | 103 |
Harmon Killebrew | I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power. | 103 |
John James Audubon | All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements. | 103 |
John Wycliffe | In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him. | 103 |
Jurgen Habermas | Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists. | 103 |
Madeleine M. Kunin | It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote. | 103 |
Rainn Wilson | 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. | 103 |
Robert Caro | 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. | 103 |
Robert Casey | Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. | 103 |
Robert Webb | Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options. | 103 |
Samuel Gompers | 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. | 103 |
Stewart Udall | We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. | 103 |
Susan Sarandon | When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. | 103 |
Barbara Deming | To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. | 103 |
James Comey | The need for reflection and restraint of power is what led Louis Freeh to order that all new agent classes visit the Holocaust Museum here in Washington so they could see and feel and hear in a palpable way the consequences of abuse of power on a massive, almost unimaginable scale. | 103 |
Jonathan Edwards | True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will. | 103 |
Joseph Pulitzer | The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations. | 103 |
Lionel Trilling | What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. | 103 |
Michael Burgess | Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. | 103 |
Moshe Dayan | It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying. | 103 |
Nelson Rockefeller | Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. | 103 |
Pierre de Fermat | 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. | 103 |
Rosalind Wiseman | The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at all costs. It demands mindlessness and unquestioned loyalty, resulting in boring people who have little ability to think for themselves or have an opposing viewpoint from those who have the most social power. | 103 |
Sean M. Carroll | I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God. | 103 |
Steve Sabol | I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means. | 103 |
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj | It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers. | 103 |
Mary Manin Morrissey | God intended Earth. God intended the waters. God intended you and me. We were created in the image and the likeness of God; we are holograms, if you will. So the power, the presence, the energy is within you and me. The energy of God, as life, is within each of us. | 103 |
Michael W. Smith | Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record. | 103 |
Patrick MacGill | Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission. | 103 |
Robbie Coltrane | Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. | 103 |
Gabriel Heatter | More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself. | 103 |
James Naismith | 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. | 103 |
Roger Babson | Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. | 103 |
Marsha Sinetar | 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. | 103 |
Andrew Jackson | Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. | 104 |
George W. Bush | 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. | 104 |
Groucho Marx | 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. | 104 |
John Muir | The power of imagination makes us infinite. | 104 |
Thomas Hobbes | 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. | 104 |
Tony Robbins | Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. | 104 |
William James | Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. | 104 |
Herbert Hoover | 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. | 104 |
John Adams | Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. | 104 |
Joseph Stalin | I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. | 104 |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 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. | 104 |
Arthur C. Clarke | I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. | 104 |
Barbara Jordan | Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. | 104 |
Bobby Seale | The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation. | 104 |
Charles Stanley | 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. | 104 |
Chris Van Allsburg | The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. | 104 |
Ciara | Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do. | 104 |
Condoleezza Rice | The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom. | 104 |
Dee Dee Myers | As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. | 104 |
Eddie Izzard | I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive. | 104 |
Emmeline Pankhurst | You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way. | 104 |
Florence Kelley | This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation. | 104 |
George Soros | We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity. | 104 |
Glenn Greenwald | An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power. | 104 |
Henry Adams | A friend in power is a friend lost. | 104 |
Idina Menzel | There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself. | 104 |
Joan Didion | To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. | 104 |
John Henrik Clarke | 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. | 104 |
Laura Bush | The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. | 104 |
Laura Linney | Doing the right thing has power. | 104 |
Lawrence M. Krauss | Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better. | 104 |
Lewis Mumford | The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. | 104 |
M. Scott Peck | Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. | 104 |
Nido Qubein | Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. | 104 |
Orison Swett Marden | 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. | 104 |
Sharon Salzberg | We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality. | 104 |
Thierry Henry | Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say. | 104 |
Thomas J. Watson | 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. | 104 |
Thomas Malthus | The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. | 104 |
Travis Bradberry | Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve. | 104 |
Unknown | The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. | 104 |
Walter Savage Landor | Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! | 104 |
Wilma Rudolph | 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. | 104 |
Wilson Mizner | The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears. | 104 |
Winona LaDuke | In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures. | 104 |
Zygmunt Bauman | As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. | 104 |
Alan Moore | 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. | 104 |
Bruce Lipton | 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. | 104 |
Charles Horton Cooley | We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. | 104 |
David Brinkley | Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. | 104 |
David Mitchell | If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is. | 104 |
George William Russell | 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. | 104 |
Kenny Loggins | There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens. | 104 |
Margaret Heffernan | When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power. | 104 |
Paul Kagame | 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. | 104 |
A. N. Wilson | Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. | 104 |
Jack Black | When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma. | 104 |
Louise Slaughter | This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand. | 104 |
Maria Mitchell | The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! | 104 |
Rosalind Wiseman | Well, I think having your kids see you role model behavior of dignity when it's hard, when you're upset, when you want to confront somebody but you don't want to and you're nervous about it, when you are having moments where abuse of power is coming on to you. I think it's really important for kids to see how you handle that. | 104 |
Shari Arison | Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large. | 104 |
Amelia Barr | But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. | 104 |
Robert Burton | To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. | 104 |
Joe Barton | No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant. | 104 |
Abraham Lincoln | Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. | 105 |
Marcus Aurelius | You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. | 105 |
Henry A. Wallace | There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. | 105 |
Isaac Newton | 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. | 105 |
Malala Yousafzai | What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way. | 105 |
Michel Foucault | 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. | 105 |
Stephen Covey | 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. | 105 |
Woodrow Wilson | 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. | 105 |
James A. Baldwin | The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. | 105 |
William Wordsworth | With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. | 105 |
Chris Hadfield | I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back. | 105 |
David Mamet | Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency. | 105 |
Dick Dale | Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier. | 105 |
Elton John | Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. | 105 |
Felix Dennis | Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. | 105 |
Gordon B. Hinckley | 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. | 105 |
Horace Mann | Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. | 105 |
Kevyn Aucoin | 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. | 105 |
Lois Lowry | 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. | 105 |
M. Scott Peck | 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. | 105 |
Marc Andreessen | Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition. | 105 |
Marilyn French | 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. | 105 |
Martin Scorsese | There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no. | 105 |
Nicole Scherzinger | Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy. | 105 |
Nikki Reed | I think we use a lot of words and labels when trying to describe people: ones with autism, ones without autism. In general, I think that labeling people is a major issue, and people don't understand the power of language. | 105 |
Orison Swett Marden | 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. | 105 |
Pericles | Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all. | 105 |
Pierre de Coubertin | The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. | 105 |
Simon Wiesenthal | What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands. | 105 |
Sojourner Truth | Truth is powerful and it prevails. | 105 |
Ted Nugent | The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. | 105 |
Thomas J. Watson | Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. | 105 |
Vinoba Bhave | 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. | 105 |
Wassily Kandinsky | Color is a power which directly influences the soul. | 105 |
William Glasser | We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. | 105 |
Yehuda Berg | If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant. | 105 |
Anne Bronte | 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. | 105 |
Ben Harper | It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel. | 105 |
Everett Dirksen | There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. | 105 |
Frances McDormand | The only power you have is the word no. | 105 |
Gabrielle Union | I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting. | 105 |
Joshua Chamberlain | The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. | 105 |
Kenny Loggins | The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. | 105 |
Madeleine M. Kunin | 'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women. | 105 |
Russell Baker | Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. | 105 |
Theodore Dreiser | 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. | 105 |
Anthony Trollope | Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. | 105 |
George A. Smith | Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. | 105 |
Jon Huntsman, Jr. | My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc. | 105 |
Deborah Tannen | Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. | 105 |
James McGreevey | I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world. | 105 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | 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. | 106 |
Edmund Burke | The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. | 106 |
Epictetus | There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. | 106 |
Jim Morrison | Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. | 106 |
Nikola Tesla | If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies. | 106 |
Susan B. Anthony | 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. | 106 |
Thomas Hobbes | 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. | 106 |
Tony Robbins | 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. | 106 |
Viktor E. Frankl | 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. | 106 |
Robert A. Heinlein | Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. | 106 |
Adam Schiff | America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community. | 106 |
Ai Weiwei | China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me. | 106 |
Arnold J. Toynbee | Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. | 106 |
Benjamin Harrison | There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. | 106 |
Chris Martin | Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has. | 106 |
Dita Von Teese | Don't underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It's worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton. | 106 |
Edwin Land | The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it. | 106 |
Greg Anderson | Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life! | 106 |
Harold Wilson | Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power. | 106 |
James Monroe | 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. | 106 |
Jose Marti | Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. | 106 |
Karlie Kloss | Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement. | 106 |
Kathleen Hanna | You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie. | 106 |
Ken Blanchard | 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. | 106 |
Lysander Spooner | The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people. | 106 |
Margaret J. Wheatley | Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence. | 106 |
Marianne Williamson | 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. | 106 |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | 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. | 106 |
Nathan Fillion | I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting. | 106 |
Patti Smith | People have the power to redeem the work of fools. | 106 |
Robert Winston | By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential. | 106 |
Samuel Adams | The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. | 106 |
Scott Walker | So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people. | 106 |
Thomas Malthus | The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. | 106 |
Wendell Phillips | Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. | 106 |
Zoe Saldana | I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company. | 106 |
Barbara Corcoran | Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. | 106 |
C. Wright Mills | Prestige is the shadow of money and power. | 106 |
Dada Vaswani | Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence. | 106 |
Dario Fo | I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and... pssss... they deflate. | 106 |
Jane McGonigal | For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life. | 106 |
Jim Hightower | Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses. | 106 |
Jon Meacham | Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. | 106 |
Michael Franti | Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form. | 106 |
Sebastian Vettel | It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty. | 106 |
Shakti Gawain | When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away. | 106 |
William Moulton Marston | Every crisis offers you extra desired power. | 106 |
Radhanath Swami | When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God. | 106 |
Aristotle | 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. | 107 |
Thomas Jefferson | 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. | 107 |
David Hume | The law always limits every power it gives. | 107 |
Eckhart Tolle | Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. | 107 |
Henry A. Wallace | If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. | 107 |
Malala Yousafzai | 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. | 107 |
Peter Drucker | Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. | 107 |
James Madison | 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. | 107 |
Mao Zedong | Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. | 107 |
Mary Wollstonecraft | 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? | 107 |
P. J. O'Rourke | Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. | 107 |
Sitting Bull | 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. | 107 |
Ai Weiwei | 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. | 107 |
Alfred Adler | 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. | 107 |
Benjamin Spock | The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. | 107 |
Camille Paglia | 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. | 107 |
Gary Zukav | 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. | 107 |
Harvey Fierstein | Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. | 107 |
Jean de La Fontaine | Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. | 107 |
John C. Calhoun | We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them. | 107 |
Josh Billings | There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. | 107 |
Kate Chopin | 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. | 107 |
Keith Haring | 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. | 107 |
Lysander Spooner | If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever. | 107 |
Max Weber | Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state. | 107 |
Milan Kundera | True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. | 107 |
Pat Robertson | It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.' | 107 |
Reese Witherspoon | The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. | 107 |
Sebastian Junger | I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power. | 107 |
Sergey Brin | We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world. | 107 |
Stanley Kubrick | 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. | 107 |
Stephen Kinzer | Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day. | 107 |
Yoko Ono | The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it. | 107 |
Alexis Carrel | 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. | 107 |
Dario Fo | All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target. | 107 |
Gary Hamel | The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors. | 107 |
Gwen Stefani | Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more. | 107 |
Jeb Bush | We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. | 107 |
Julian Casablancas | Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power. | 107 |
Georg Buchner | The power of the people and the power of reason are one. | 107 |
Eric Sevareid | Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. | 107 |
Plato | The measure of a man is what he does with power. | 108 |
Baruch Spinoza | Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. | 108 |
Bernie Sanders | Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question. | 108 |
Gloria Steinem | We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. | 108 |
Malala Yousafzai | When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. | 108 |
Michel Foucault | 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. | 108 |
Nikola Tesla | 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. | 108 |
Kofi Annan | Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. | 108 |
Abigail Adams | Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. | 108 |
Charles de Montesquieu | The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. | 108 |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. | 108 |
Hugo Chavez | One of the greatest rebels, who I really admire: Christ. He was a rebel. He ended up being crucified. He was a great rebel. He rebelled against the established power that subjugated. | 108 |
Lewis B. Smedes | You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. | 108 |
Oswald Chambers | If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. | 108 |
Peace Pilgrim | If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. | 108 |
Philip Zimbardo | Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. | 108 |
Phillips Brooks | Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. | 108 |
Ralph Ellison | If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. | 108 |
Sandra Bullock | No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that. | 108 |
Sylvester Stallone | 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. | 108 |
Thom Yorke | So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things. | 108 |
Thomas Huxley | I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. | 108 |
Thurgood Marshall | Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. | 108 |
Jean Rostand | A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. | 108 |
Jerry Lewis | This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know? | 108 |
Joseph Franklin Rutherford | The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible. | 108 |
Lawrence G. Lovasik | Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. | 108 |
Mahatma Gandhi | 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. | 109 |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort. | 109 |
Simon Sinek | Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental. | 109 |
Stephen Hawking | I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. | 109 |
Vaclav Havel | The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. | 109 |
Alexander the Great | I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. | 109 |
John Lydon | We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist. | 109 |
Julius Caesar | 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. | 109 |
Alanis Morissette | I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop. | 109 |
Chuck Palahniuk | Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. | 109 |
Friedrich Schiller | Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. | 109 |
Honore de Balzac | Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. | 109 |
John Quincy Adams | Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. | 109 |
Larry Page | 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. | 109 |
Linus Torvalds | To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together. | 109 |
Louisa May Alcott | 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. | 109 |
Muhammad Yunus | Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change. | 109 |
Peace Pilgrim | The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. | 109 |
Richard J. Daley | Power is dangerous unless you have humility. | 109 |
Salman Rushdie | What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. | 109 |
Sheryl Sandberg | It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them. | 109 |
Willa Cather | 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. | 109 |
Robert Anthony | When you blame others, you give up your power to change. | 109 |
Sri Aurobindo | 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. | 109 |
Aristotle | The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. | 110 |
John F. Kennedy | 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. | 110 |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. | 110 |
George Orwell | Liberal: a power worshipper without power. | 110 |
Rene Descartes | When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. | 110 |
James Madison | The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. | 110 |
Johnny Depp | I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. | 110 |
Meister Eckhart | Words derive their power from the original word. | 110 |
Alexander Graham Bell | 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. | 110 |
Alicia Keys | I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do. | 110 |
Barbara De Angelis | 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. | 110 |
David A. Bednar | The Holy Ghost is manifested to men and women on the earth both as the power and as the gift of the Holy Ghost. The power can come upon a person before baptism; it is the convincing witness that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. | 110 |
Edward Abbey | Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. | 110 |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. | 110 |
Freeman Dyson | What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford. | 110 |
George Lucas | 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. | 110 |
John Greenleaf Whittier | 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. | 110 |
Maimonides | Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. | 110 |
Mason Cooley | Money: power at its most liquid. | 110 |
Morihei Ueshiba | 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. | 110 |
Pierre Corneille | A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. | 110 |
Mariska Hargitay | It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else. | 110 |
Michael Leunig | 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. | 110 |
Spiro T. Agnew | The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. | 110 |
Benjamin Disraeli | Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. | 111 |
Henry A. Kissinger | Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. | 111 |
James Madison | 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. | 111 |
Joel Osteen | You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. | 111 |
Julius Caesar | If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. | 111 |
Alice Walker | The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. | 111 |
Benjamin F. Wade | Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere. | 111 |
Bobby Seale | 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. | 111 |
Denis Diderot | No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. | 111 |
Eartha Kitt | Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did. | 111 |
F. Sionil Jose | Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects. | 111 |
Friedrich August von Hayek | 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. | 111 |
George Soros | Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. | 111 |
Jeremy Bentham | The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. | 111 |
Lord Acton | 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. | 111 |
Muhammad Iqbal | Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. | 111 |
Ralph Nader | A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. | 111 |
River Phoenix | When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. | 111 |
Walter Annenberg | The greatest power is not money power, but political power. | 111 |
Yoko Ono | Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think. | 111 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. | 112 |
Clint Eastwood | It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives. | 112 |
W. E. B. Du Bois | The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? | 112 |
Indira Gandhi | The power to question is the basis of all human progress. | 112 |
Nas | DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us. | 112 |
Henri Nouwen | The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. | 112 |
Herbert Hoover | Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. | 112 |
Jane Goodall | 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. | 112 |
Daniel Goleman | One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us. | 112 |
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | 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. | 112 |
Eric Hoffer | The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. | 112 |
Harry Browne | A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power. | 112 |
Horatio Nelson | If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. | 112 |
Margaret J. Wheatley | Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well. | 112 |
Paracelsus | 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. | 112 |
Plutarch | 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. | 112 |
Reinhold Niebuhr | Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. | 112 |
Samuel Smiles | Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action. | 112 |
Ted Cruz | The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power. | 112 |
James Buchan | For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. | 112 |
Lao Tzu | Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. | 113 |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. | 113 |
John Stuart Mill | 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. | 113 |
Abigail Adams | I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' | 113 |
Hannah Arendt | 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. | 113 |
Alfred A. Montapert | 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. | 113 |
Ani DiFranco | A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. | 113 |
Cher | 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. | 113 |
George MacDonald | To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. | 113 |
Henry B. Eyring | If you reflect often on how His Atonement has changed you, and if you give thanks often, you will find that your witness of Him gains power to touch the hearts of others. When those you invite out of your own testimony feel that witness, they will come to accept Him as their Lord and Savior. | 113 |
Honore de Balzac | There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. | 113 |
Rick Warren | I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that. | 113 |
Robert Collier | Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm. | 113 |
Wole Soyinka | Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. | 113 |
Junot Diaz | Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for. | 113 |
Rita Mae Brown | Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. | 113 |
Eckhart Tolle | If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small. | 114 |
John Muir | There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. | 114 |
Stephen Bannon | If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life. | 114 |
Dennis Prager | If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? | 114 |
Samuel Johnson | Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. | 114 |
Anne Lamott | 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. | 114 |
Henri Matisse | A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. | 114 |
Howard Schultz | I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community. | 114 |
James Allen | 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. | 114 |
John Kenneth Galbraith | In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. | 114 |
Morihei Ueshiba | 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. | 114 |
Paul Wellstone | Politics is not about power. | 114 |
Samuel Butler | A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. | 114 |
Stokely Carmichael | So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. | 114 |
Anita Hill | The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other. | 114 |
Charles de Secondat | Power ought to serve as a check to power. | 114 |
Don DeLillo | People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. | 114 |
Sloane Crosley | Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons? | 114 |
Pat Buckley | I believe in the power of weakness. | 114 |
Aristotle | The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. | 115 |
George Washington | Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. | 115 |
Plato | 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. | 115 |
George Orwell | Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. | 115 |
Rene Descartes | Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. | 115 |
Henry Ward Beecher | The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. | 115 |
Edward de Bono | 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. | 115 |
Emile M. Cioran | Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. | 115 |
Lauryn Hill | I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. | 115 |
Lord Acton | The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. | 115 |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. | 115 |
Sydney J. Harris | If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? | 115 |
William Ellery Channing | No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. | 115 |
William Hazlitt | The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. | 115 |
Sloane Crosley | The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power. | 115 |
George Washington | Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. | 116 |
John F. Kennedy | 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. | 116 |
Ayn Rand | Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. | 116 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky | 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! | 116 |
Gloria Steinem | 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. | 116 |
Ben Carson | We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are. | 116 |
Booker T. Washington | Character is power. | 116 |
James A. Baldwin | The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. | 116 |
Ai Weiwei | Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. | 116 |
Alice Walker | This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. | 116 |
Barney Frank | 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. | 116 |
Christopher Marlowe | What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? | 116 |
Drew Barrymore | I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life. | 116 |
Isabel Allende | What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. | 116 |
Ted Cruz | The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds. | 116 |
Allen Klein | Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor. | 116 |
Bruce Lee | The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. | 117 |
Leonardo da Vinci | Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. | 117 |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. | 117 |
Booker T. Washington | There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. | 117 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. | 117 |
Arthur Ashe | We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men. | 117 |
Bernard Baruch | There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. | 117 |
Ezra Taft Benson | I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need. | 117 |
Friedrich Durrenmatt | Power is paradoxical. | 117 |
James Allen | 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. | 117 |
Madeleine Albright | Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. | 117 |
C. S. Lewis | This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. | 118 |
Muhammad Ali | 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. | 118 |
Andrew Jackson | The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. | 118 |
Baruch Spinoza | 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. | 118 |
Benjamin Disraeli | I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. | 118 |
Edmund Burke | 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. | 118 |
Peter Drucker | Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. | 118 |
Thomas Sowell | 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. | 118 |
Tony Robbins | 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. | 118 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety. | 118 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson | Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. | 118 |
Jackie Kennedy | There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed. | 118 |
John Maynard Keynes | 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. | 118 |
Alvin Toffler | Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. | 118 |
Anthony J. D'Angelo | The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. | 118 |
Ellen G. White | 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. | 118 |
James E. Faust | Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others. | 118 |
Miguel de Cervantes | Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. | 118 |
Shimon Peres | The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money. | 118 |
Marcus Aurelius | Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. | 119 |
Ayn Rand | 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. | 119 |
Elon Musk | It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere. | 119 |
Leo Tolstoy | 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. | 119 |
Pope Francis | 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. | 119 |
Chanakya | The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. | 119 |
Margaret Atwood | A word after a word after a word is power. | 119 |
Og Mandino | Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. | 119 |
Theodor Adorno | Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. | 119 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer. | 119 |
Rush Limbaugh | Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men. | 119 |
Scott Adams | Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel. | 119 |
Don DeLillo | People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. | 119 |
Kanye West | Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference. | 120 |
Andrew Jackson | Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments. | 120 |
Ayn Rand | God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. | 120 |
Conor McGregor | Glutes are power. | 120 |
Epictetus | Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. | 120 |
Frederick Douglass | Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. | 120 |
Vladimir Nabokov | To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. | 120 |
Andrew Carnegie | Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. | 120 |
Robert A. Heinlein | 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. | 120 |
Henry Adams | Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. | 120 |
Ludwig von Mises | Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. | 120 |
Beyonce Knowles | Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice. | 121 |
George Orwell | Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. | 121 |
Rumi | And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. | 121 |
Salvador Dali | The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. | 121 |
Swami Vivekananda | 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. | 121 |
Queen Elizabeth II | 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. | 121 |
William Wordsworth | Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. | 121 |
Cesare Pavese | Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. | 121 |
Walter Scott | He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. | 121 |
Allen Klein | No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself. | 121 |
Andrew Jackson | The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. | 122 |
Ayn Rand | To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. | 122 |
Malala Yousafzai | 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. | 122 |
Robert Frost | 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. | 122 |
W. E. B. Du Bois | Education is the development of power and ideal. | 122 |
Milton Friedman | Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. | 122 |
Richard Bach | 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. | 122 |
W. Clement Stone | 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. | 122 |
Joseph Conrad | 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. | 122 |
Marcus Aurelius | To live happily is an inward power of the soul. | 123 |
Andrew Jackson | It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. | 123 |
Benjamin Disraeli | Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. | 123 |
Bruce Lee | Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. | 123 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. | 123 |
Salvador Dali | It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. | 123 |
Steven Wright | There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. | 123 |
Joseph Stalin | The only real power comes out of a long rifle. | 123 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? | 123 |
Thomas Carlyle | 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. | 123 |
Pope Francis | You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person. | 124 |
Toni Morrison | As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. | 124 |
Calvin Coolidge | 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. | 124 |
Oprah Winfrey | Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. | 124 |
Theodor Adorno | The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. | 124 |
Aristotle | 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. | 125 |
Clint Eastwood | You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him. | 125 |
Eckhart Tolle | 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. | 125 |
Thomas Paine | We have it in our power to begin the world over again. | 125 |
Ayrton Senna | 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. | 125 |
Black Elk | I cured with the power that came through me. | 125 |
Stendhal | Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. | 125 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | 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. | 126 |
Andrew Jackson | Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. | 126 |
Benjamin Disraeli | Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. | 126 |
David Bowie | I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. | 126 |
James Madison | Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. | 126 |
Jane Austen | 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. | 126 |
John Adams | Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. | 126 |
Michael Jackson | 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. | 126 |
Barack Obama | We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled. | 201 |
Donald Trump | Owning a great golf course gives you great power. | 201 |
Bertrand Russell | Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. | 201 |
Eckhart Tolle | The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present. | 201 |
Tony Robbins | 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. | 201 |
Victor Hugo | All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. | 201 |
Bear Grylls | When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great. | 201 |
John Adams | Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. | 201 |
Alexander Hamilton | 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. | 202 |
Dalai Lama | If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. | 202 |
Jonathan Swift | Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. | 202 |
Orison Swett Marden | Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. | 202 |
Eleanor Roosevelt | Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. | 203 |
John F. Kennedy | Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. | 203 |
Voltaire | 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. | 203 |
Bob Marley | 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. | 203 |
Kurt Vonnegut | Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive. | 203 |
Walt Whitman | There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. | 203 |
James Madison | 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. | 203 |
John Adams | 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. | 203 |
Oprah Winfrey | Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. | 203 |
Denis Diderot | 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. | 203 |
Alexander Hamilton | Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will. | 204 |
Thomas Aquinas | If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. | 204 |
Jim Carrey | One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again. | 204 |
Norman Vincent Peale | When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. | 205 |
Ray Bradbury | Everything is generated through your own will power. | 205 |
Andrew Young | Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. | 205 |
George Washington | 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. | 206 |
Billy Graham | The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?' | 206 |
Peter Drucker | Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. | 206 |
Vladimir Putin | The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength. | 206 |
Oprah Winfrey | 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. | 206 |
Honore de Balzac | Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. | 206 |
Socrates | I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. | 207 |
George Bernard Shaw | The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. | 207 |
Vincent Van Gogh | 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. | 207 |
William James | 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. | 207 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. | 207 |
Khalil Gibran | 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? | 208 |
Hunter S. Thompson | The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane. | 208 |
Richard Dawkins | 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. | 208 |
Aeschylus | Excessive fear is always powerless. | 209 |
Aung San Suu Kyi | 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. | 210 |
Thomas Fuller | Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. | 210 |
Gilbert K. Chesterton | 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. | 211 |
Henry A. Kissinger | Power is the great aphrodisiac. | 211 |
Malala Yousafzai | I believe the gun has no power at all. | 211 |
Joyce Meyer | We can approach God's throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross. | 211 |
Stephen King | I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement. | 211 |
Charles de Gaulle | Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. | 212 |
Malcolm X | Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. | 212 |
Napoleon Hill | Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. | 212 |
John F. Kennedy | 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. | 213 |
Richard Dawkins | Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. | 213 |
Joyce Meyer | You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians. | 213 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues. | 214 |
Ambrose Bierce | Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. | 215 |
Aldous Huxley | 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. | 217 |
Samuel Johnson | Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. | 217 |
Erich Fromm | There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. | 217 |
Noam Chomsky | The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. | 218 |
Thomas Paine | 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. | 218 |
Henri Frederic Amiel | Order is power. | 218 |
Carl Jung | 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. | 219 |
Alan Watts | But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. | 220 |
Thomas Jefferson | 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. | 221 |
Blaise Pascal | Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. | 222 |
David Ogilvy | The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything. | 222 |
Lech Walesa | Authority must be respected and chosen wisely. | 222 |
Aristotle | What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. | 223 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. | 223 |
Voltaire | Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. | 223 |
George Bernard Shaw | She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. | 223 |
Hillary Clinton | There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world. | 224 |
Malcolm X | Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. | 224 |
Lao Tzu | The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. | 225 |
Dalai Lama | If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. I am just one human being. | 302 |
Yogi Berra | 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. | 302 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make? | 303 |
Albert Einstein | That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. | 304 |
Voltaire | The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. | 304 |
Blaise Pascal | Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. | 304 |
Francis Bacon | 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. | 304 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system. | 304 |
Mark Twain | Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. | 305 |
Benjamin Disraeli | The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. | 305 |
Ambrose Bierce | Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. | 305 |
Barack Obama | Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. | 306 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. | 308 |
Thomas Jefferson | I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. | 308 |
Bertrand Russell | Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. | 308 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. | 308 |
Barack Obama | What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. | 309 |
Robert Frost | I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. | 310 |
Napoleon Bonaparte | 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. | 311 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. | 312 |
George Orwell | 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. | 315 |
Arthur Schopenhauer | Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. | 316 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. | 316 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | 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. | 317 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | 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. | 317 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nothing external to you has any power over you. | 317 |
Steve Jobs | 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? | 317 |
Napoleon Bonaparte | One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. | 320 |
Henry Ward Beecher | A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. | 320 |
Aeschylus | Whoever is new to power is always harsh. | 320 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | 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. | 321 |
Eric Hoffer | Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. | 321 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Power and speed be hands and feet. | 322 |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | 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. | 323 |
Albert Camus | All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. | 324 |
Thomas Jefferson | Power is not alluring to pure minds. | 401 |
Winston Churchill | The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. | 403 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. | 404 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. | 411 |
George Bernard Shaw | Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. | 411 |
Abraham Lincoln | 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. | 413 |
Alice Walker | Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. | 416 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | He who has great power should use it lightly. | 418 |
Thomas Carlyle | The eye sees what it brings the power to see. | 418 |
Abraham Lincoln | For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. | 424 |
Thomas Jefferson | The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. | 506 |
Abraham Lincoln | 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. | 515 |
Henry David Thoreau | There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. | 515 |
Winston Churchill | It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. | 521 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! | 601 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Every reign must submit to a greater reign. | 609 |
Albert Einstein | The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. | 612 |
Albert Einstein | Force always attracts men of low morality. | 624 |
Thomas Jefferson | Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. | 625 |
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