Quotes About Power

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

No man has any influence or power for good when angry.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away.

Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.

Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.