Quotes About Power

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or your parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates "in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.