Quotes About Power

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?

The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

Use your power gently.

Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing.

Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare. Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It's much more raucous at times; it's much more poignant at times. It involves more of the emotional body.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

I don't really get into the power sufficiently, and that's also a problem for me.

If I was a part of secret ninja group my power would be the power of apology. I would just apologize emphatically and freely. And my mech might just be a phone to send apologetic emails from.

The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty.

The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power.

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.

The power of purity-it is a definite power.

Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.