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Quotes About Power

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
~ William Penn
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Radio helps DJs break into a whole different audience. Radio has so much power. And that's my mission: to not only break into the EDM audience, but to break also into the mainstream audience.
~ Martin Garrix
Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God
~ Bill Johnson
I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
~ Georges Bidault
Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.
~ Bill Frisell
Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.
~ Gloria Allred
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.
~ Huey Newton
Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.
~ Ayn Rand
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
~ Robert Greene
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
~ Henry James
When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.
~ Swami Vivekananda
China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.
~ Iqbal Quadir
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
~ Voltaire
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
~ C. S. Lewis
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
~ Confucius
Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
~ Ziggy Marley
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
~ Mary Daly
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss