Power Quotes · Page 235

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

— Chris Hayes

“It’s easier to handle if you’re not pussy footing around on the power.”

— Jodi Ellen Malpas

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

— Norman Mailer

I go through my tweets while writing and be like, 'Oh, this has staying power and is still relevant.'

— Jaboukie Young-White

People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

— Zaha Hadid

“There's no point in fighting for the throne if you're not going to make a difference.”

— Rhiannon Thomas

People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

— John C. Maxwell

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

— Ruth Westheimer

Forgiveness is powerful, not because it is easy to say I'm sorry and move on. But because, you've to let yourself go…

— Jeremy Limn

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your…

— James Hunter

The world seems a big vitrine to me, my arms are not too strong to break those glasses...my wishes are just one…

— Ali Nazari

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or…

— Dario Fo

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it…

— Ralph Nader

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up…

— Rupert Everett

“Seek not the power to create things under your control. Seek rather to manifest that which is beyond your control.”

— Ross Hostetter

If I believe authority is raised by God - I understand I don't understand all things. And what those purposes are. He's…

— Paula White

“Awareness, when managed and directed, becomes attention. By turning into attention, awareness becomes localized, and attains a focal point. Because of this…

— Ilchi Lee

“The struggle for power conducted along logical lines is much more likely to occur in smoke-filled rooms than at the polls. The…

— Robert Penn Warren

To achieve a successful transition, we don't just have to remove Maduro. We also have to rescue our institutions themselves. That's why…

— Juan Guaido

Even in Haiti, I saw John Wayne movies. American cinema has always been the dominant cinema throughout the world, and people tend…

— Raoul Peck

Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at…

— Anonymous

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on…

— Vince McMahon

An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under…

— Tariq Ali

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

— Elbert Hubbard

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The culture of power versus the power of culture,” he quoted. “One side always loses.”

— Ausma Zehanat Khan

To influence others, we must know what is influencing them... and they must know that we get it.

— Bill Crawford

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

— Thomas Piketty

“A person with true power doesn't need to attack. A person without power attacks constantly.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.”

— Thomas Wolfe

“Not all powers are spectacular. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.”

— Rick Riordan

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

— Anonymous

I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.

— Peyton Reed

Tranquility is not weakness; from tranquility emerges power and strength.

— C. JoyBell C

“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

— J. Tillman

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

— Martin Buber

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

— Linus Torvalds

“If the Lord did it for them, He could do it for me. He is the same God with all the power.”

— Genevieve Woods