Quotes About Power

I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."

Power without guilt, love without doubt.

Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.

The power we call God defies description.

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.

I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power. And I think it's legitimate. And I don't see that that's a danger to us.

Words have no power when someone isn't listening to you anymore

Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.