Quotes About Power

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

Wherever there is power there is age.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow.

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

I'm scared of people with power making the decision.

There's a lot of power in putting it out in the universe. It's telling your subconscious mind, 'This is what's gonna happen.'

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

You create your future with the power of your intention. Intention is simply the conscious act of determining your future now.

When we open our minds to the unlimited creative power, we will call forth abundance and see and experience a whole new world.

You have to feel love to harness its power!

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

A new power is emerging on the world stage born of love not fear

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are also cheaper, they are more accessible to make.

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully. I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw a punch like you can. That was poetry in motion, Liss." She groaned.