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Quotes About Power

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
~ John Steinbeck
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
~ George Eliot
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
~ Edward Abbey
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
~ Laura Bush
It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
~ Black Elk
The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.
~ Pope Pius V
The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.
~ James Lee Burke
Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.
~ Ernest Becker
I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.
~ Abdus Salam
It is in your power to release the ability of God.
~ Charles Capps
Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.
~ Andy Biersack
To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.
~ Anwar Sadat
The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power.
~ Reinhard Bonnke
We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
~ Ngugi wa Thiong'o
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power
~ Kate Millett
I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.
~ Denis Hayes
If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah's forgiveness.
~ Ibn Rajab
The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.
~ Elinor Ostrom
I was baptized into Christ. I died when He died. Sin's power over me has been broken, in Jesus' name!
~ T. B. Joshua
The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.
~ Lynne McTaggart