Power Quotes · Page 193

Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“We are not poor because we do not have money, we are poor because we do not know how to make money.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Control what your body can do, than that your heart wanted you to.

— Floime Conejos

Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.

— Lemmy

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

In a democracy, you can be right and still lose power.

— James Wolfensohn

DMK's arrogance of being in power at the Centre will be put an end to by AIADMK in the Lok Sabha polls.

— J. Jayalalithaa

Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend,…

— Steve Maraboli

The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive…

— Noam Chomsky

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power…

— Oriana Fallaci

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.'…

— Helen Caldicott

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

— Hannah Arendt

“You must arrest every passing time and convert it into growing your knowledge and prowess in that chosen field of influence.”

— Sunday Adelaja

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way…

— Thom Yorke

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of…

— Joe Strummer

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In many cases, Obama's exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control…

— Ben Shapiro

“It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them.…

— Agnostic Zetetic

“Philip Zimbardo became one of the most popular psychologists who delved deeper into the concept of mind control. He described it as…

— Clarence T. Rivers

Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups…

— William O. Douglas

Disproportionate corporate power over governments is giving license to the greed that denies workers even minimum living wages. It is also seemingly…

— Sharan Burrow

“Some people," Aunt Emily answered sharply, "are so busy seeing all sides of every issue that they neutralize concern and prevent necessary…

— Joy Kogawa

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

— Pope Francis

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

— Charles Caleb Colton

We never have the power to change anyone. But we can always be the reason for their change.

— Collins Hasty

The strategy of any party would be to see how best it can defeat the party in power.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

— Thomas Paine

There's power in the truth, just like there's power in making the right choice

— Anonymous

“Efficient control over what is experienced is necessary to live a life that is desirable.”

— Steven Redhead

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

— Steven Pressfield

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

— William Hazlitt

I have athletic power that people can't see, that sharpness, the big bang that hits you.

— Daniel Jacobs

I believe Jeremy Corbyn getting his hands on power is a risk we cannot afford to take.

— Esther McVey

“...if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...”

— John Geddes

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

— Jules Renard

When you observe rather than react, you reclaim your power.

— Denise Linn

When the power of love over comes the love of power the world will know peace

— Jimi Hendrix

“Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.”

— Sunday Adelaja