Quotes About Power

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it's power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you've got more energy just from the music. And, I've never seen it fail. It's good for ya; real good for ya.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

Knowledge is only potential power.

Believe that when you come into the presence of God you can have all you came for. You can take it away, and you can use it, for all the power of God is at your disposal in response to your faith.