Quotes About Power

Every single thing you do matters. You have been created as one of a kind. You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

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.

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.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

God doesn't author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He doesn't give us the power to overcome.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.