Quotes About Power

The opening of your hearts to receive the Lord Jesus Christ is not a work done by any power of your own, but the arm of the Lord is revealed therein.

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

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.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.

Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve.