Quotes About Power

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you.You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven, He led captivity captive!

The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.

The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.