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Quotes About Power

Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?
~ B. J. Palmer
A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
~ Jacki Weaver
Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.
~ Edward Said
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.
~ Morgan Freeman
When your perspective is preloaded with the Word of God, lies lose their power over your life.
~ Steven Furtick
Give me the power to produce fever and I'll cure all disease.
~ Parmenides
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
~ Paulo Freire
If you have the FAITH to believe it, you have the POWER to conceive it!
~ T. D. Jakes
It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.
~ Leon Brown
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds
~ Charles I of England
The thing is, it has to do with heart - we have to understand what hearts are for before we can get back to heaven or paradise or the power in our minds.
~ John Trudell
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
~ Honore de Balzac
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
~ Kenneth Kaunda
When you think of the woman's power, you forget the power of the woman's God. I shall go on.
~ Mary Slessor
Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
~ Blaise Pascal
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
~ Elie Wiesel
It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.
~ Richard Henry Lee
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
~ Roger Williams
The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
~ Saadi
The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.
~ John Rawls
Federalism isn't about states' rights. It's about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.
~ Elizabeth Price Foley
In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home the only thing i have power over is the garbage.
~ Bob Ross