Quotes About Power

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.

Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.