Quotes About Power

You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

Man made God in his own image.

We ought to be using nuclear power. It's a renewable source of energy.

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.