Quotes About Power

I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.

...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.

People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.

Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.

I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.

So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.