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Quotes About Power

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.
~ Van Jones
Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains
~ Dogen
Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.
~ Samuel R. Delany
The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
~ Virgil
The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.
~ Calvin Coolidge
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
~ Seneca the Younger
All worship is shot wrong that is not directed to, and conducted by, the thoughts of the power of God, whose assistance we need.
~ Stephen Charnock
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!
~ William Shakespeare
As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of the hateful foreign ideology. Believe me.
~ Donald Trump
Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
~ Oliver Stone
So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.
~ Norman Mailer
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
~ Rudolph Rummel
Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.
~ Twyla Tharp
The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.
~ Paul Johnson
The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.
~ Donald Trump
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
When in doubt, grab power.
~ Caspar Weinberger
The healing power of medical drugs is the Ur-power of their original essence in conjunction with the power of Ur-vibrations of the human-Divine combination that is composed of body, soul and spirit.
~ Rudolf John Gorsleben
So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.
~ Derrick Jensen
Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
~ Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.
~ Costa-Gavras
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
~ Samuel Johnson