Quotes About Power

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.

All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

The Point of Power Is in the Present.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

The Palestinians don't have oil. If they were the Saudis, they wouldn't be in the position they are now. But they have the power of being able to upset the imperial order in the Middle East.

Intention is power. Intention is ownership. Intention is commitment. Intention is magic.

The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.

The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. The result is usually increased energy and power, and a sense of things flowing.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with