Quotes About Power

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

God Who delivers us from the guilt of sin through faith in Jesus Christ, is able to deliver the believer from the power of sin as well.