Quotes About Power

The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.

We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.

Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.

the power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

Boys are still led to believe that power is associated with domination.

More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.

Government has the power to help improve well-being

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.