Quotes About Power

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.

There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.

Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.

The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.

Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

You can't trust anybody with power.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.