Quotes About Power

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.

When we think we're at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately.

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

I hope we all feel more comfortable acknowledging the power of image in our perceived successes and our perceived failures.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017.

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.

What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

Principles have a way of yielding to power.