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Quotes About Power

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.
~ Van Jones
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
~ Loretta Lynch
While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.
~ Jim Norton
Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.
~ John Newton
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...
~ George Bernard Shaw
Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
~ Eric Berne
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
~ Bertrand Russell
The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!
~ Joseph Prince
Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.
~ Steve Ditko
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
~ Hester Lynch Piozzi
Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.
~ Josiah Stamp
Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.
~ Douglas McGregor
I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.
~ Katie Holmes
God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.
~ Andrew Bonar
When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you're giving it power.
~ Anthony de Mello
No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.
~ Bill Phillips
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Power isn't just about going forward. It's about not letting anything hold you back.
~ Patrick Willis
Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated thought is a concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.
~ Charles F. Haanel
There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power
~ Prentice Mulford
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
~ Buenaventura Durruti
People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.
~ Jasmine Guy
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
~ Shulamith Firestone
The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.
~ Genevieve Behrend