Quotes About Power

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for "as he thinketh within himself, so is he."

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments." "Yeah," said Harry, "but you, unlike me, are a git.

The real secret of power is consciousness of power.

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation, we look at that monument and we say this is one nation under God.

Some people have the power but not the willingness to help. Others have the willingness but not the power. God has both.

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Rising inequality isn't about who has the knowledge; it's about who has the power.

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.