Top 1000 Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

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.

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.

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.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

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.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

The power is between your ears.The power is in your heart.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

'Me Too' is about letting - using the power of empathy to stomp out shame.

Power has no limits.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

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

It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

When the primary people who have influence and power in our communities are not even really allowed to educate you on who to vote for and against, we're in trouble.

When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalist is to confront those who are abusing power.

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.

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

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.

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

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

A king without power is an absurdity.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Media truly has the power to create and shift culture.

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.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

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.

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.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

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

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

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.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

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.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

Power is competence.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.