Quotes About Power

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Power is the recognition of necessity.

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state.

Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.

Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing and built a substantial power base.

The big question now is who will take power in Afghanistan once the Taliban is defeated. I was thinking, how about Al Gore? He's not doing anything, he needs a job, and he's already got the beard.

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.