Quotes About Power

We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate the consequences of CO2.

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.