Quotes About Power

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will.

God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.