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"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
Robert A. Heinlein"Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless."
Paul P. Harris"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought."
Peace Pilgrim"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power."
William Gaddis"The greatest power is not money power, but political power."
Walter Annenberg"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful."
Malala Yousafzai"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."
William Plomer"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
Margaret Thatcher"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society."
Michel Foucault"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love."
Nelson Rockefeller"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
Bruce Lee"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you."
Susan Sarandon"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."
Edmund Burke"Knowledge is power."
Francis Bacon"Truth is powerful and it prevails."
Sojourner Truth"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -John Dalberg"
Acton"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"
Fyodor Dostoevsky"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
Friedrich Nietzsche"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated."
Andrew Jackson"Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power."
Robert Green Ingersoll"The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future."
Eric Hoffer"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."
Phillips Brooks"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Frederick Douglass"Power ought to serve as a check to power."
Montesquieu"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."
Lao Tzu"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
Edward Abbey"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"
Friedrich Nietzsche"Every reign must submit to a greater reign."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
Leonardo da Vinci"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."
Indira Gandhi"The greatest power is often simple patience."
E. Joseph Cossman"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
John Adams"The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other."
Anita Hill"Unlimited power corrupts the possessor."
William Pitt"In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power."
A. J. P. Taylor"There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers."
Bernard Baruch"Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God."
Arnold J. Toynbee"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power."
Alfred Lord Tennyson"The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away."
Aneurin Bevan"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in."
Frederick the Great"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
Leo Buscaglia"Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions."
Barney Frank"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command."
Niccolo Machiavelli"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing."
Catherine the Great"The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged."
Aung San Suu Kyi"I cured with the power that came through me."
Black Elk"Power is not alluring to pure minds."
Thomas Jefferson"In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power."
Pope Francis"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power."
Baruch Spinoza"The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production."
Klaus Schwab"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."
Toni Morrison"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
Mahatma Gandhi"Power is the great aphrodisiac."
Henry Kissinger"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."
Benjamin Disraeli"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
Alan Cohen"The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions."
Tariq Ramadan"There is more power in unity than division."
Emanuel Cleaver"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."
Friedrich Nietzsche"No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself."
Allen Klein"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."
Benjamin Disraeli"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."
Henry Ward Beecher"I believe in the power of weakness."
Pat Buckley"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."
Albert Einstein"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
Voltaire"The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance."
Justin Welby"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
James Baldwin"Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable."
Robert Greene"The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame."
Viola Davis"An alliance with a powerful person is never safe."
Phaedrus"Calmness is the cradle of power."
Josiah Gilbert Holland"In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy."
Barack Obama"I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other."
Harvey Fierstein"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
Jacob Bronowski"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
Epicurus"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
Arthur Schopenhauer"A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he's usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don't know what to think of it."
Pusha T"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
William Wordsworth"I believe the gun has no power at all."
Malala Yousafzai"America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community."
Adam Schiff"No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!"
Joyce Meyer"Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand."
Mark Z. Jacobson"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it."
Julius Caesar"The power lunch is no longer just for men. We all deserve a seat at the table."
Whitney Wolfe Herd"I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall."
Mike May"Every single person has the power to change the world and help people."
Laura Marano"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
Aristotle"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
Eleanor Roosevelt"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson"In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curable, but they're very, very highly treatable, and early information is power. The only thing - literally the only thing - that is different is the stigma. And we have to overcome it, because it is now the only reason people are dying."
David Furnish"The digital world has power because it has dynamic information, but it's important that we stay human instead of being another machine sitting in front of a machine."
Pranav Mistry"The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman."
Finn Jones"I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good."
Kevin DeYoung"The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital."
Mark Hyman"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun."
William Glasser"Power in America today is control of the means of communication."
Theodore White"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent."
Jonathan Swift"Character is power."
Booker T. Washington"I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power."
Sandra Cisneros"If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is."
David Mitchell"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."
Thomas Hobbes"Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world."
Alfred A. Montapert"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."
Don DeLillo"Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have."
Andrew Young"My life will not be defined by a single political campaign. Those will come and go. But what has driven me to run for elected office in the past still drives me today: the knowledge that heroes do walk among us with tremendous strength and power."
Darryl Glenn"'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?"
Alex Gibney"To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness."
Eckhart Tolle"If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life."
Steve Bannon"If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control."
Monica Crowley"The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them."
Thomas Hobbes"The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language."
Marcus du Sautoy"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."
Blaise Pascal"Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be."
Alice Walker"Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people."
George W. Bush"I have to be very humble. I know that anything I do is through God. Through me, God can make a miracle. The most you can do is to think and create all love, all grace, all power, all health. When you do that, amazing things can happen. But the day I think that I'm doing a miracle myself is a foolish day for me."
Walter Mercado"I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that."
Jose Andres"Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat."
Guy Fieri"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that."
Oliver Stone"Knowledge is power, and it can help you overcome any fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more awareness through the process, and you know what pitfalls to look for as you get ready to transition to the next level."
Jay Shetty"There is no limit to the power of loving."
John Morton"He who has great power should use it lightly."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"The way to have power is to take it."
Boss Tweed"Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey."
Denis Diderot"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power."
Alvin Toffler"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all."
John Greenleaf Whittier"I want to stay humble, but I have to talk because the other guys talk too much, and... I understand the crazy power the UFC PR machine has."
Khabib Nurmagomedov"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
David Brin"Authority must be respected and chosen wisely."
Lech Walesa"A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else."
Pierre Corneille"The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything."
David Ogilvy"I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions."
Lata Mangeshkar"Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else."
Monica Bellucci"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
Groucho Marx"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."
George Meredith"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."
Roseanne Barr"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
Maria Montessori"Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future."
Kenzo Tange"Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power."
Sarah Hall"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."
Charles Simmons"I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system."
Oskar Schindler"Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth."
George A. Smith"We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has."
Deborah Tannen"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."
Aristotle"There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love."
Wayne Dyer"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
Abigail Adams"Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer."
Nick Rahall"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading."
David Bailey"Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think."
Robert Henri"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."
Aung San Suu Kyi"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."
Salvador Dali"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
Cesare Pavese"Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere."
Benjamin F. Wade"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."
James Madison"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
George Washington"Every day alive in the 'Power' world is a beautiful day."
Brandon Victor Dixon"I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care."
Camille Paglia"Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics."
Robin S. Sharma"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted."
James Madison"The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it."
Edwin Land"The power of the people and the power of reason are one."
Georg Buchner"Politics is not about power."
Paul Wellstone"Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor."
Allen Klein"They say Latina women are spicy. But we are more than that. We have power, and we run things."
Natti Natasha"Sustainability is not just about adopting the latest energy-efficient technologies or turning to renewable sources of power. Sustainability is the responsibility of every individual every day. It is about changing our behaviour and mindset to reduce power and water consumption, thereby helping to control emissions and pollution levels."
Joe Kaeser"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development."
Kofi Annan"Color is a power which directly influences the soul."
Wassily Kandinsky"There's nothing that's more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn't belong."
Jill Biden"Life has sweetness to it and a beauty and a power that I wanted to celebrate."
Valerie Harper"With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange."
Jon Batiste"With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new."
Judd Rose"A friend in power is a friend lost."
Henry Adams"There is power in unity. There is power in strength."
Bradley Beal"Words have a lot of power."
Juice Wrld"Words, without power, is mere philosophy."
Muhammad Iqbal"Power is dangerous unless you have humility."
Richard J. Daley"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
Blaise Pascal"Prestige is the shadow of money and power."
C. Wright Mills"I'm a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams."
Julie Payette"Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate."
George William Russell"There is real power in seeing yourself as a hero. Because then you believe that you can do anything."
Jenny Han"Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world."
Gordon Brown"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."
Mark Zuckerberg"Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner."
Cher"Excessive fear is always powerless."
Aeschylus"There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources."
Bill McKibben"Power does not change you, it unmasks you."
John Kennedy"I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power."
Patricia Cornwell"Power wears out those who don't have it."
Giulio Andreotti"Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them."
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw"The law has no power over heroes."
Charlotte Lennox"Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's."
Deborah Tannen"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."
John Ray"Never underestimate the power of anyone's story... anyone's life."
Abby Johnson"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power."
Mark Zuckerberg"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius"What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse."
Isabel Allende"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes."
Marcus Tullius Cicero"I'm not gonna give anybody the power to control my life."
Anushka Sharma"The point of power is always in the present moment."
Louise L. Hay"The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America."
Joe Biden"The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture."
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw"When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do."
Robert Caro"The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present."
Eckhart Tolle"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."
Charles de Gaulle"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."
Barbara De Angelis"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
Mark Twain"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life."
Thomas Hobbes"Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you."
John McAfee"It's worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule. Certain ethnic, religious, racial or indigenous groups were deliberately privileged over others in order to create a sense of investment in upholding the power structure."
Ash Sarkar"Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy."
Nicole Scherzinger"Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you."
Joel Osteen"When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power."
Ezra Taft Benson"You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow."
Jack Black"There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully."
Juhi Chawla"Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours."
Elton John"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers."
Erich Fromm"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."
Martin Luther King, Jr."Every crisis offers you extra desired power."
William Moulton Marston"One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are."
Cal Thomas"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."
William James"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."
Franklin D. Roosevelt"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
Viktor E. Frankl"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix"When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist."
Akhenaton"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
Kofi Annan"Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power."
Amy Tan"There is no 'us' and 'them'; it's an illusion. We are all human beings, and we all have a responsibility to support one another and to discover ways of wresting the power from the very, very few people who control all the cash and all the property."
Roger Waters"Technology and social media have brought power back to the people."
Mark McKinnon"Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it."
Randeep Hooda"Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages."
Ariel Dorfman"No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings."
Denis Diderot"The only power you have is the word no."
Frances McDormand"People who are powerless make an open theater of violence."
Don DeLillo"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."
John Stuart Mill"Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us."
Frederick William Faber"Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it."
Sylvia Earle"We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change."
David Oyelowo"Together, we have the power to inspire, connect, and deliver on new opportunities and rich experiences that can open doors to innovation and progress while growing global economies and increasing well-being."
Tae Yoo"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."
Henry Ward Beecher"There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
Everett Dirksen"Power is paradoxical."
Friedrich Durrenmatt"Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it."
Maxine Waters"Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world."
Kirstin Maldonado"Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation."
Atifete Jahjaga"There's a difference between lust and passionate love. Lust can't just creep in. You'll not find it where true love exists, but it has power enough to shatter the world you've worked so hard to create with love, and sometimes, it suddenly changes how you perceived love to begin with. Love then doesn't live there anymore."
Jennifer Winget"Spending time with negative people can be the fastest way to ruin a good mood. Their pessimistic outlooks and gloomy attitude can decrease our motivation and change the way we feel. But allowing a negative person to dictate your emotions gives them too much power in your life. Make a conscious effort to choose your attitude."
Amy Morin"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
John Muir"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment."
Tony Robbins"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
Irving Berlin"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
W. H. Murray"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words."
Paul Engle"And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."
Ayrton Senna"I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God."
Olivia Hussey"My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave."
Arnold Schwarzenegger"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
Epictetus"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity."
Mary Gaitskill"Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are."
Gary Wright"The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed."
William Henry Harrison"The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power."
Carol P. Christ"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."
Jeremy Bentham"The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender."
William Booth"I don't want to be fake. I'm just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us."
Bad Bunny"Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen."
Pete Carroll"Order is power."
Henri Frederic Amiel"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
John Adams"You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away."
Julie Plec"A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts."
Glenn Greenwald"Biology always beats will power."
Mehmet Oz"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."
Mike Ditka"Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble."
Yehuda Berg"Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!"
David O. McKay"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."
Washington Irving"Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy."
Dada Vaswani"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."
Joan Didion"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."
Oprah Winfrey"Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older."
Kris Kristofferson"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."
Stewart Udall"I have been lucky to meet some incredible people who do not possess what you would traditionally class as power, but through their charisma, passion, and strength of character, they are able to achieve things that 'richer or more powerful people' could only dream of."
Holly Branson"I think people really underestimate the power of just wanting to do it, and hard work, and competitive spirit, and preparation."
Joe Burrow"Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power."
Dav Pilkey"It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else."
Mariska Hargitay"It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship."
Corazon Aquino"If you are sincere and true to your work, you will be respected. And for me, respect is power."
Riteish Deshmukh"Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power."
J. B. Pritzker"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."
Meryl Streep"Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip."
Nancy Gibbs"Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table."
George P. Shultz"All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star."
Francis Thompson"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."
Alan Watts"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning"What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?"
Christopher Marlowe"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."
Voltaire"There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women."
Muhammad Ali Jinnah"Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration."
DeWitt Clinton"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
William Hazlitt"The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people."
Kailash Satyarthi"The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people."
Chadwick Boseman"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
James Madison"Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high."
P. V. Sindhu"I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."
Sylvester Stallone"Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path."
Kevyn Aucoin"I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation."
William Clay Ford, Jr."We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential."
Ryan Holiday"Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am. -Alexandria Ocasio"
Cortez"There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure."
Marianne Williamson"Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed."
J. G. Ballard"Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible."
William Godwin"The entire planet is drawn to Indian culture and soft power. The global community looks to us for solutions to international problems - whether terrorism, money laundering or climate change. In a globalised world, our responsibilities are also global."
Ram Nath Kovind"Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked."
Cameron Winklevoss"Never underestimate the power of intrinsic values. They inspire every struggle for a better world."
George Monbiot"The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth."
Mario Puzo"Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip."
Eckhart Tolle"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
Epictetus"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love."
Morihei Ueshiba"I feel as though, if you're able to control your dreams, you have more power and control over your mind, like you could reach more areas of your mind. Therefore, I feel like it creates the ability for you to achieve more things in reality."
Juice Wrld"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"
Cornelius Vanderbilt"Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."
Stendhal"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."
Ayn Rand"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."
Friedrich Schiller"Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor."
Eric Sevareid"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life."
Booker T. Washington"What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!"
Joseph Pulitzer"I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power."
Matt Bevin"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
Carl Jung"The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it's a live performance; spontaneity is its soul."
Himani Shivpuri"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power."
Clint Eastwood"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
Martin Buber"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us."
Wilma Rudolph"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
Gloria Steinem"No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives."
Louise L. Hay"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. -John Dalberg"
Acton"Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie."
Pamela Meyer"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Mao Zedong"Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet."
Robert Charles Winthrop"Our Founders worried a lot about the tyranny of the majority. They designed our form of government to provide a loud voice for minority points of view. They hated the idea of unilateral power. And wanted to force advocates and policy makers, through structure and process, to compromise."
Charlie Baker"Don't underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It's worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton."
Dita Von Teese"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
Ayn Rand"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
Samuel Johnson"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."
Jim Morrison"I know it's a cliche. But, like, literally, I want to create an empire of dozens of talent under me to take my power and multiply it so that I become bigger than myself."
Jake Paul"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie."
Wole Soyinka"Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now."
Oprah Winfrey"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
Edgar Allan Poe"We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals."
Robert Caro"Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling."
Shahid Kapoor"The eye sees what it brings the power to see."
Thomas Carlyle"Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic."
Alexis Carrel"There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time."
Sophie Swetchine"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."
Thomas Jefferson"Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are."
Tom Hanks"If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world."
Vinoba Bhave"We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength."
Charles Stanley"Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility."
Robin Morgan"I'm not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power and something looking out for me. I've definitely had angels that have either guided me or helped me through moments in my life, without a doubt."
Christian Slater"I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good."
Thomas Hooker"The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect."
Peter A. Levine"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends."
Henry A. Wallace"Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct."
Barbara Corcoran"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
Plutarch"There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?"
J. J. Watt"Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment."
Morihei Ueshiba"The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us."
Sheryl Lee"Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change."
George Ayittey"Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America."
Isoroku Yamamoto"I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that."
Paris Hilton"When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you."
Joey Jordison"I'm obsessed with the power of music and image together. There's also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous - there's a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don't really see in movies in the same way."
Max Minghella"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power."
Andrew Jackson"The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all."
Origen"In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it."
Marianne Williamson"Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly."
Ludwig von Mises"Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power."
Benazir Bhutto"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."
Bruce Lee"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."
Andrew Carnegie"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."
John W. Gardner"Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration."
John Kennedy"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."
Matthew Arnold"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better."
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo"The power of social media is it forces necessary change."
Erik Qualman"We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends."
Mary McLeod Bethune"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well."
Lewis B. Smedes"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
James Madison"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."
Honore de Balzac"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
Plato"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Unknown"I believe in the power of great clothing. It can evoke confidence, beauty, and a sense of glamour."
Tina Knowles"Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion."
Sharon Salzberg"Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change."
Bruce Lipton"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."
William E. Gladstone"The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science."
Richard P. Feynman"Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight."
Marilyn French"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
George Bernard Shaw"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
Edward Gibbon"I've been kind of embracing my own power and really getting in touch with my inner goddess."
Ashnikko"Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it."
Bruce Lipton"One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power."
Nancy Dubuc"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart."
Eric Hoffer"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."
Ayn Rand"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
Thomas Paine"Strong government doesn't mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.'"
Raghuram Rajan"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."
William Henry Harrison"Media is a double-edged sword and has the power to change hearts and minds through authentic storytelling as well as the power to paint a person, or an entire community, in a dim and misleading light."
Angelica Ross"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."
Agnes de Mille"You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue."
Joel Osteen"Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power."
Julian Casablancas"As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power."
Ayanna Pressley"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
Martin Luther King, Jr."The point of journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable."
Ana Kasparian"Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems."
Leroy Hood"I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous."
Beyonce Knowles"We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that."
Gilbert Baker"The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front."
Jamie Dornan"Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors."
Yochai Benkler"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."
Jackie Kennedy"The blockchain symbolizes a shift in power from the centers to the edges of the networks."
William Mougayar"Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not."
Kara Walker"Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss."
Paul Davies"Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power."
James Madison"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."
Don Miguel Ruiz"Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate."
Harvey Fierstein"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."
Ambrose Bierce"There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords."
John Muir"Force always attracts men of low morality."
Albert Einstein"Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established."
Honore de Balzac"The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it."
Kit Harington"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
Peter Drucker"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
James Madison"The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people."
Tom Clancy"Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."
Stephen Covey"Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice."
Beyonce Knowles"The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power."
Andy Biersack"Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart."
Ed Koch"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."
Anne Lamott"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
John Steinbeck"Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy."
Michael C. Burgess"New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself."
Joan Didion"Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power."
Steve Bannon"You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person."
Pope Francis"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
George Orwell"Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights."
Pete Stark"The power of visibility can never be underestimated."
Margaret Cho"Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don't ourselves experience."
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."
Robert Staughton Lynd"Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move."
Ossie Davis"Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people."
Michael Shellenberger"Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together."
Edgar Winter"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
Abigail Adams"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."
Thomas Jefferson"Whoever is new to power is always harsh."
Aeschylus"I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you."
Rohit Shetty"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
Samuel Adams"We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations."
Sharon Salzberg"Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes."
Preity Zinta"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."
Eleonora Duse"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
Aristotle"The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection."
Henri Nouwen"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."
Mary Shelley"Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic - the strong attacking the weak."
Maria Konnikova"What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power. -Steve"
O"We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are."
Ben Carson"Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide."
Ice Cube"I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power."
George Harrison"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
Muhammad Ali"I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time."
Jenny Mollen"Social media is a very, very powerful tool. It also gives power to tools."
Chris Young"There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens."
Martin Van Buren"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."
Alexander Graham Bell"Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song."
Paul Epworth"A cult is a religion with no political power."
Tom Wolfe"Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar."
Theodor W. Adorno"For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men."
Isabel Allende"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
J. K. Rowling"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."
Jim Bishop"Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say."
Jonathan Sacks"Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it."
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."
Samuel Johnson"The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong."
James Monroe"When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power."
Rick Wilson"The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice."
John Rawls"Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power."
Seth Berkley"This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive."
Alice Waters"My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward."
Kenny Loggins"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
Woodrow Wilson"Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government."
Tony Blair"A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of."
Zendaya"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?"
Harry Shearer"Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them."
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II"So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense of possibilities."
Ivan Illich"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."
Montesquieu"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."
Joan Didion"I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated in one place, it tends to get abused, so checks and balances are always needed."
Dean Ornish"All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
Charles A. Beard"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins."
William Pitt"We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again."
Paul Kagame"We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game."
Young Thug"I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words."
Ann Hood"Power to the peaceful!"
Michael Franti"I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic."
Bryan Batt"The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own."
Ally Condie"Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it."
John Henrik Clarke"There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."
Plato"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
Russell Baker"The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness."
Martin Seligman"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."
Herbert Hoover"When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him."
Craig Ferguson"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
John F. Lehman, Jr."Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power. -Alexandria Ocasio"
Cortez"Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear."
Bob Morley"The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power."
Ted Nugent"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose."
J. Martin Kohe"Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides."
Rita Mae Brown"Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle."
Noam Chomsky"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
Thomas Malthus"I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it."
Kristin Armstrong"Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits."
Henry Giroux"I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done."
Robert Downey, Jr."Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation."
David A. Bednar"We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
Carl Sagan"The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power."
Pope Benedict XVI"My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled."
Carly Fiorina"If you want to be a woman in power, then empower other women."
Nina Shaw"Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body."
Devon Aoki"A king without power is an absurdity."
James Monroe"Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power."
Nick Hanauer"One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us."
Daniel Goleman