Quotes About Power

I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.

Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment

The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

You must never underestimate the power of your righteous influence.

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

Yeah, size is no guarantee of power," said George. "Look at Ginny." "What d'you mean?" said Harry. "You've never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?

The human being has enormous resources in the power to heal. And in those resources lie things that we ourselves need to clear or feel.

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that!