Quotes About Power

The point of journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

It's absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.

One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

Every day alive in the 'Power' world is a beautiful day.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The blockchain symbolizes a shift in power from the centers to the edges of the networks.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.

None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.

My first memory of cinema is my mother taking me to see 'Silkwood,' which is about a whistleblower at a nuclear power plant.

The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.