Quotes About Power

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

The power of determination will make you unstoppable.

In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.

Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.

Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do.

Every single choice we make is either going to enhance the spirit or drain it. Every day, we're either giving ourselves power or taking it away.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That's the power of story.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.