Quotes About Power

Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

Power wears out those who don't have it

We learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal in us and the power of our imagination

There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.

A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

To say a thing 'must be', is the very power that makes it.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.