Quotes About Power

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

A good wife must be strong enough to pull a plough and have a very erotic physique.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

I don't know that I'm gonna get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there's a good chance I won't. And if I don't, do you honestly believe that Hillary would be tougher on Putin than me?

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

You don't go after what's mine. Now be a good boy and gut yourself." -Xhex, Lover Mine.

What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.