Top 1000 Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

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.

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.

There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes a difference and especially try to influence adults and put pressure on people in power.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

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.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

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.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

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.

We will use political power as a tool to improve the lives of the people.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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.

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

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.

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.

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.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

Words derive their power from the original word.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Order is power.

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!

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

Power wears out those who don't have it.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

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.

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.

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.

Ultimately, the power of the Airbnb platform is that it motivates guests to blend into communities, belong anywhere, and live like locals.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

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.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

Aang hits the Avatar-state and he has this unlimited power. He enters into a flow state, you know, he's in the zone. That's how it feels for me sometimes when I'm fighting.

Biology always beats will power.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

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.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic - the strong attacking the weak.

Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Never underestimate the power of intrinsic values. They inspire every struggle for a better world.