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Quotes About Power

If you have the power to resurrect the dead man, firstly, be sure that he is a good man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is no power greater than true affection.
~ Seneca the Younger
I had a very good package for Phoenix, but at other tracks we do not have the power. The Brazilian Grand Prix was maybe closer to the reality.
~ Jean Alesi
Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.
~ Laurence Equilbey
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
~ Seneca the Younger
Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.
~ George Hickenlooper
There is no one in al-Nahda that is violence is a means of change or to keep power. Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.
~ Rashid al-Ghannushi
Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.
~ Billy Graham
I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.
~ Peter S. Beagle
How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.
~ Dick Cheney
Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.
~ Joseph Addison
A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power's twin is responsibility.
~ Willa Gibbs
Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.
~ Kathleen Brown
Whence has come thy lasting power.
~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
~ Amber Hollibaugh
The more fears we walk through, the more power we reclaim.
~ Robin Sharma
I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.
~ Brian Aldiss
What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress.
~ Ted Cruz
It looks like President Bush will be handing over power to the Iraqis by June 30th. That's amazing and not only that, but it looks like he'll be handing over power to the Democrats by November 2nd.
~ David Letterman
We have the power to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries, when the boundless is so near?
~ Deepak Chopra
The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.
~ Ed Crane