Quotes About Power

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of yourself!

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

The power of imagination is infinite.

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

All of this has to be understood as part of a process leading ultimately to a treaty that will give an international body power over our domestic laws.

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

The greatest power available to man is not to use it.

Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

Law is but a heathen word for power.

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, Jesus himeself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.

SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.