Quotes About Power

Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

The power of publicity is more important than advertising.

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Reality is my drug. The more I have of it, the more power I get and the higher I feel

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.

In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on this planet, is unlimited.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.