Quotes About Power

In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.

There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova. I'm burning up a sun just to say good bye.

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

I feel like I'm super hero diva and my power is glitter.

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God.

I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.

Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!