Quotes About Power

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.

There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.

The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.

It is God who works in and through us, if only we would let God do His work.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

Now everybody has to work together. They are the fourth estate. Incredibly powerful.

My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).

A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart.

Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.

Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.

Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.

people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.

Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.