Quotes About Power

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.

The conscience of a people is their power.

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.

In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.

By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for growth.

A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.

To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.