Quotes About Power

He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.

Natural healing has the power to cure pancreatic cancer. But usually, before I see the patient, medical treatments - not the disease - have destroyed the patient's body.

Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. ... Can anyone truthfully say, I don't matter and I don't mind?

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

The strong were always eating the weak.

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!