Power quotes

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

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.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

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

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in 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.

What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

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

But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.

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.

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

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.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

You can 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.

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

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

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

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.

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.