Quotes About Power

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

The most important part of living life on your own terms and having it all is having faith and belief in yourself and in the intelligent power that created you.

When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

By Thy power, let there be peace, O God!

Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.

Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.