Quotes about what is Power

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power. Votes: 3

The measure of a man is what he does with power. Votes: 3

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. Votes: 3

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. Votes: 3

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. Votes: 3

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. Votes: 3

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. Votes: 2

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. Votes: 2

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed. Votes: 2

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. Votes: 2

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power. Votes: 2

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. Votes: 2

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid. Votes: 2

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. Votes: 2

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience. Votes: 2

The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be. Votes: 2

Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.' Votes: 2

Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.' Votes: 2

What is power without control? Votes: 0

What a curious power words have. Votes: 0

What power has love but forgiveness? Votes: 0

Power's not what the Constitution was about. Votes: 0

What a strange power there is in clothing. Votes: 0

What power has law where only money rules. Votes: 0

What power is higher than the power of purity? Votes: 0

Measure a person by what they do with power. Votes: 0

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called. Votes: 0

What, no Power Rangers Band-Aids ?" "Shut up, Garett." "Yes, ma'am. Votes: 0

What people do for the struggle of power is madness. Votes: 0

Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on. Votes: 0

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. Votes: 0

That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price. Votes: 0

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women. Votes: 0

The eye sees what it brings the power to see. Votes: 0

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? Votes: 0

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. Votes: 0

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. Votes: 0

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused Votes: 0

What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master! Votes: 0

Cleavage is to a man what power is to a woman. Votes: 0

Dreams have the power to make real what the heart desires. Votes: 0

What good is power when you're too wise to use it~? Votes: 0

What good is power when you're too wise to use it? Votes: 0

Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says. Votes: 0

What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you. Votes: 0

What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust! Votes: 0

You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release. Votes: 0

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think. Votes: 0

What kind of power was it if it would never be used? Votes: 0

No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer. Votes: 0

What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love. Votes: 0

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few. Votes: 0

You can be only what you give yourself the power to be. Votes: 0

There is power in words. What you say is what you get. Votes: 0

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be. Votes: 0

What really drives me is sharing the power of makeup with every woman. Votes: 0

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself. Votes: 0

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power. Votes: 0

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that. Votes: 0

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told. Votes: 0

Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute. Votes: 0

God allows in His wisdom what He could easily prevent by His power. Votes: 0

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate. Votes: 0

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims. Votes: 0

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. Votes: 0

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate. Votes: 0

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think. Votes: 0

Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs. Votes: 0

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power. Votes: 0

the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women? Votes: 0

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game. Votes: 0

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. Votes: 0

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings Votes: 0

Memory has no power but what the soul chooses to make of it. Votes: 0

Cursed greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. -- Virgil Votes: 0

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power? Votes: 0

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands. Votes: 0

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. Votes: 0

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power Votes: 0

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are. Votes: 0

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists. Votes: 0

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you. Votes: 0

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing Votes: 0

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it. Votes: 0

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power. Votes: 0

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will. Votes: 0

The Higher Power knows what to do and how to do it. Trust it. Votes: 0

Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will. Votes: 0

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain. Votes: 0

What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven? Votes: 0

Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach. Votes: 0

Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do. Votes: 0

What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them. Votes: 0

Acquiring knowledge doesn't bring power into your life, until you apply what you have learned. Votes: 0

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do. Votes: 0

What will increase one person's personal power will not necessarily be the same for another. Votes: 0

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power? Votes: 0

Information is not power. Power is power. But what turns information into power is action. Votes: 0

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will. Votes: 0

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking. Votes: 0

Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means. Votes: 0

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about. Votes: 0

The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power Votes: 0

No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage. Votes: 0

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it. Votes: 0

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical. Votes: 0

What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful. Votes: 0

What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power. Votes: 0

By the power of the Holy Spirit, we can do what needs to be done. Votes: 0

None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing. Votes: 0

It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life. Votes: 0

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed. Votes: 0

That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people. Votes: 0

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination. Votes: 0

What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection. Votes: 0

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Votes: 0

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power. Votes: 0

I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power? Votes: 0

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind. Votes: 0

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians. Votes: 0

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.... Votes: 0

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. Votes: 0

Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take! Votes: 0

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. Votes: 0

Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do. Votes: 0

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. Votes: 0

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty Votes: 0

I don't care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ. Votes: 0

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. Votes: 0

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed. Votes: 0

What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power. Votes: 0

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say. Votes: 0

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion. Votes: 0

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice. Votes: 0

What test?" Asked Nudge. "Max, you're incorruptible." "Only by power." I said. "You haven't tried chocolate yet. Votes: 0

There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it. Votes: 0

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. Votes: 0

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Votes: 0

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. Votes: 0

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents. Votes: 0

What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving. Votes: 0

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. Votes: 0

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them. Votes: 0

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power? Votes: 0

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license. Votes: 0

The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. Votes: 0

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it. Votes: 0

Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them. Votes: 0

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. Votes: 0

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is. Votes: 0

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does. Votes: 0

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power. Votes: 0

It's time to come together. We all have the power to change, so what are we waiting for? Votes: 0

Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor. Votes: 0

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot. Votes: 0

I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power. Votes: 0

Be appreciative of what's right with your life. In your gratitude is power to make it even better Votes: 0

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven. Votes: 0

I would not be able to define my star power as I do not know what that is. Votes: 0

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Votes: 0

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought. Votes: 0

What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy. Votes: 0

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power? Votes: 0

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. Votes: 0

It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad. Votes: 0

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening. Votes: 0

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power. Votes: 0

As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power. Votes: 0

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. Votes: 0

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. Votes: 0

You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance. Votes: 0

Find out what my Individual Divine and Unique Power IS and offer it outwards in harmony with all life! Votes: 0

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? Votes: 0

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. Votes: 0

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes. Votes: 0

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story. Votes: 0

What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium. Votes: 0

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. Votes: 0

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta. Votes: 0

I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for. Votes: 0

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth. Votes: 0

What's an eBay?" "A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray (City of Bones) Votes: 0

When we see only what we want to see in the Bible, it loses all power to transform us. Votes: 0

I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power. Votes: 0

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change. Votes: 0

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist. Votes: 0

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power. Votes: 0

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person Votes: 0

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. Votes: 0

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. Votes: 0

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists Votes: 0

When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually. Votes: 0

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists. Votes: 0

Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power. Votes: 0

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. Votes: 0

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? Votes: 0

God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness. Votes: 0

When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously. Votes: 0

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. Votes: 0

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth Votes: 0

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power. Votes: 0

We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is. Votes: 0

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority. Votes: 0

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life? Votes: 0

Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to. Votes: 0

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. Votes: 0

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport. Votes: 0

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesnt have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants. Votes: 0

What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place. Votes: 0

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. Votes: 0

I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan. Votes: 0

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power. Votes: 0

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness. Votes: 0

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows? Votes: 0

There's no solution except to break the power of Chiang Kai-shek by capturing Nanking. That is what I must do. Votes: 0

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so. Votes: 0

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power. Votes: 0

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve. Votes: 0

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. Votes: 0

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume. Votes: 0

Power is what is required to change the universe - to change yourself into what you might like to be. Votes: 0

What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe. Votes: 0

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. Votes: 0

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us. Votes: 0

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real. Votes: 0

I think the power of the mind is amazing, and we've barely scratched the surface of what it can do. Votes: 0

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage Votes: 0

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. Votes: 0

I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do. Votes: 0

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness. Votes: 0

You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you. Votes: 0

What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can. Votes: 0

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! Votes: 0

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think? Votes: 0

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought. Votes: 0

We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want. Votes: 0

Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do. Votes: 0

It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside. Votes: 0

Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power. Votes: 0

Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right Votes: 0

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street. Votes: 0

What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. Votes: 0

We have power not just with our voices, but we have economic power in what we do for a living, too. Votes: 0

What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit. Votes: 0

Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful. Votes: 0

What power has love but forgiveness?In other wordsby its interventionwhat has been donecan be undone.What good is it otherwise~? Votes: 0

Radar, of course, is what cellphone radiation is exactly like. It can be a similar frequency, it's just much weaker power. Votes: 0

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law. Votes: 0

I'll just ask now: What is it about my persona that draws every insane, power-hungry nutcase to me like a magnet? Votes: 0

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it. Votes: 0

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it. Votes: 0

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens. Votes: 0

What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action. Votes: 0

People you are emotionally open to can drain your power level or raise it tremendously, depending on what their intentions are. Votes: 0

What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power! Votes: 0

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. Votes: 0

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control. Votes: 0

Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power. Votes: 0

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own? Votes: 0

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. Votes: 0

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. Votes: 0

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. Votes: 0

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. Votes: 0

What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature. Votes: 0

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. Votes: 0

Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want and be who we want to be. Votes: 0

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it. Votes: 0

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within. Votes: 0

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate. Votes: 0

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature? Votes: 0

It doesn't matter if you have a lot or a little money. It's what you do with it that determines its power. Votes: 0

What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions. Votes: 0

How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become? Votes: 0

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives. Votes: 0

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over! Votes: 0

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do? Votes: 0

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor. Votes: 0

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. Votes: 0

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. Votes: 0

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power. Votes: 0

There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom. Votes: 0

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere. Votes: 0

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. Votes: 0

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment. Votes: 0

…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us. Votes: 0

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power. Votes: 0

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. Votes: 0

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good. Votes: 0

Power comes from who you are, not what you have, and the transformation starts with how you allow others to treat you. Votes: 0

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic. Votes: 0

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know. Votes: 0

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. Votes: 0

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men. Votes: 0

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us. Votes: 0

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe? Votes: 0

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real. Votes: 0

Awaken to your own internal power, to your own connection to the Divine, and act on what you are inspired to do Votes: 0

You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you. Votes: 0

Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting that they'll use it to heal you instead. Votes: 0

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be. Votes: 0

What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will. Votes: 0

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward. Votes: 0

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people. Votes: 0

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power! Votes: 0

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do. Votes: 0

We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand. Votes: 0

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. Votes: 0

Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives. Votes: 0

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit. Votes: 0

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do. Votes: 0

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I? Votes: 0

Ranting about her being hard to understand? Wait until you lose her. You will clearly understand, what an effortless power a woman has! Votes: 0

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs. Votes: 0

You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible. Votes: 0

There's a lot of power in putting it out in the universe. It's telling your subconscious mind, 'This is what's gonna happen.' Votes: 0

We can approach God's throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross. Votes: 0

Notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. The result is usually increased energy and power, and a sense of things flowing. Votes: 0

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Votes: 0

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood. Votes: 0

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty. Votes: 0

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it. Votes: 0

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together. Votes: 0

True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome. Votes: 0

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power! Votes: 0

I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can. Votes: 0

All the answers to your questions about what your goals can and should be lie within, so does your power to accomplish those goals. Votes: 0

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world. Votes: 0

I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want. Votes: 0

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? Votes: 0

My God, my higher power, it's mine and mine alone. I create my connection, and I decide what my connection is going to be. Votes: 0

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please. Votes: 0

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny. Votes: 0

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon. Votes: 0

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? Votes: 0

Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly pleasure Votes: 0

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power. Votes: 0

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? Votes: 0

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man. Votes: 0

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. Votes: 0

What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us. Votes: 0

The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges. Votes: 0

Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed. Votes: 0

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way. Votes: 0

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power. Votes: 0

Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time. Votes: 0

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is. Votes: 0

I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power. Votes: 0

It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear. Votes: 0

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate Votes: 0

What is your personal definition of "good"? A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power. Votes: 0

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power! Votes: 0

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is. Votes: 0

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today. Votes: 0

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know. Votes: 0

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power! Votes: 0

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core. Votes: 0

When you can answer questions about what you think and when you can explain why you think what you think, that's power, it's comforting power. Votes: 0

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success. Votes: 0

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right. Votes: 0

...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil. Votes: 0

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing. Votes: 0

To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong. Votes: 0

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power... Votes: 0

When you can answer questions about what you think and when you can explain why you think what you think, that's power, it's comforting power. Votes: 0

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. Votes: 0

Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity! Votes: 0

Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe." Votes: 0

...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy Votes: 0

Our world faces incredible economic uncertainty. The notion of what is a super power has evolved, and who actually can carry what muscle has changed. Votes: 0

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use. Votes: 0

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart. Votes: 0

There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is. Votes: 0

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all. Votes: 0

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. Votes: 0

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . . Votes: 0

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for. Votes: 0

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Votes: 0

Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see. Votes: 0

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. Votes: 0

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. Votes: 0

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets? Votes: 0

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be. Votes: 0

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. Votes: 0

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too. Votes: 0

Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind. Votes: 0

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women. Votes: 0

Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed. Votes: 0

We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do. Votes: 0

People do what they think works for them, but the sport is about instinct, movement, balance, power... it's too animalistic to get rigid about your training. Votes: 0

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it. Votes: 0

I have the power of choice in every moment. Where will I place my attention? What do I hold sacred? Whom can I love right now? Votes: 0

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. Votes: 0

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do. Votes: 0

He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works. Votes: 0

To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back. Votes: 0

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself. Votes: 0

We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse. Votes: 0

I believe that a sportsman should be aggressive because that is what gives him or her the power to perform even in the toughest of situations. Votes: 0

The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine? Votes: 0

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want. Votes: 0

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist. Votes: 0

What people instinctively regard as cool is real power - consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That's lameness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power? Votes: 0

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite. Votes: 0

It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become. Votes: 0

When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong. Votes: 0

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral. Votes: 0

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe. Votes: 0

Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself. Votes: 0

What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best. Votes: 0

Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned. Votes: 0

What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see. Votes: 0

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked. Votes: 0

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too. Votes: 0

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura. Votes: 0

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. Votes: 0

I don't want to explain to somebody what pollen is. That is the secret and the beauty and the power and the potential of all this. Votes: 0

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence. Votes: 0

Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to be done. Votes: 0

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself. Votes: 0

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like. Votes: 0

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like. Votes: 0

The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it. Votes: 0

It is really not what we have in our hand that gets the job done, but it is God's power filling what we have in our hand. Votes: 0

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information. Votes: 0

The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action. Votes: 0

Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?... Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to..." (1995) Votes: 0

What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace. Votes: 0

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will. Votes: 0

She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that? Votes: 0

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. Votes: 0

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power. Votes: 0

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will Votes: 0

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. Votes: 0

When the heart is open and balanced, we enter into a state of attraction to what we need, because the power of love is magnetic and harmonious. Votes: 0

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Votes: 0

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls. Votes: 0

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do. Votes: 0

What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska. Votes: 0

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks. Votes: 0

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business? Votes: 0

What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger. Votes: 0

Infinite power just isn't very interesting, no matter what game you're playing. It's much more fun when you have a limited tool set to use against the odds. Votes: 0

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself. Votes: 0

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control. Votes: 0

There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices. Votes: 0

I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual. Votes: 0

There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue. Votes: 0

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality. Votes: 0

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think. Votes: 0

What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind? Votes: 0

What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure. Votes: 0

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. Votes: 0

What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes. Votes: 0

We don't know where our food comes from. We don't know a lot of things about what is happening financially. This creates the "power over" kind of feeling. Votes: 0

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. Votes: 0

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing. Votes: 0

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil. Votes: 0

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement ... Votes: 0

What's your vision of what you think should happen? How can you make it happen? Go stand in your power and walk with intention to make it so. Votes: 0

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something? Votes: 0

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power. Votes: 0

The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with. Votes: 0

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them. Votes: 0

It's not going to be easy. It's the earth. What creates power in your life is when you perfect your mind, your career, and your associations with others. Votes: 0

So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do. Votes: 0

When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something. Votes: 0

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did. Votes: 0

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us? Votes: 0

Asides your power, passion and poise, what glues the posters of your impacts on memorial walls is how you treat those you need and those who need you. Votes: 0

The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility. Votes: 0

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power. Votes: 0

You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it. Votes: 0

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have. Votes: 0

There is a growing recognition about China as a power in the ascent, and there is a question out there about what China will do with their new ascension. Votes: 0

What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as liberal democracy, free markets and Europe with suspicion. Votes: 0

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag? Votes: 0

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing. Votes: 0

I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for. Votes: 0

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be. Votes: 0

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction. Votes: 0

God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth. Votes: 0

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags. Votes: 0

I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true. Votes: 0

Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race? Votes: 0

We must remember how to honor and respect life with each breath, step, word, and thought. What you bless blesses you in return. This is the power of reciprocity. Votes: 0

Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race? Votes: 0

What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace. Votes: 0

A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been. Votes: 0

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune! Votes: 0

Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about. Votes: 0

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives. Votes: 0

People keep saying, How'd you get power? Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it. Votes: 0

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.' Votes: 0

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have? Votes: 0