Quotes About Power

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.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.

We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

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.

Be faithful that your authentic power is all you need to truly share your light with the world.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.