Quotes About Power

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax

Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people's lives and change and lift them up.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

The power of gentleness is irresistible.

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary.

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.