Quotes About Power

Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk.

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.

If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

You have the power to take our country back.

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

Imagination is an abuse of power.

The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

The European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.