Quotes About Power

When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.

The more people challenge us, the more power we gain. We become stronger not under the tiny raindrops but under the huge hailstone!

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine?

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.

Remember - no limitation can be placed on you by any one but yourself. With your imagination you have a unique ability to draw on an infinite source of supply. There is power in thought.

I think maybe, if I could be a Canadian super hero, I'd have some kind of freezing power and some sort of maple syrup weapon. Could be a little sticky.

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

Politics is activity in relation to power

Whatever power I exert is collegial.

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.