Top 1000 Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

For me, education was power.

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.

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?

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you.

Power to the peaceful!

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

Activists need to educate themselves about the power of crypto currencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009, and use crypto to leverage the success of their independent media gains to tip the balance of power away from the troika in ways that could never happen by backing a political candidate.

We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down... I'm not going to go anywhere.

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

He who has great power should use it lightly.

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

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.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

I think people really underestimate the power of just wanting to do it, and hard work, and competitive spirit, and preparation.

There is no limit to the power of loving.

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.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

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.

It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in truth, Life is gaining all the while. Brute force, such power as there seems to be in things, cannot stand against ideas which are eternal.

The United States must look beyond Mr. Putin. His regime may appear imposing, but it is rotting inside. His Russia is not a great power on par with America. It is a gas station run by a corrupt, autocratic regime.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt?