Power Quotes · Page 264

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

— Rita Mae Brown

It ain't the technique, it ain't the speed, it ain't the power. It's who wants it the most.

— B. J. Penn

We should use every pillar of American power to destroy ISIS.

— Todd Wilcox

Some people abuse their power and the effects of that can be crippling.

— Raye

“Most people's greatest regret is not living the life they knew they could live.”

— Todd Stocker

If your lives connect with other people you have influence.

— Johnny Hunt

The chance to profit from corruption is why many authoritarian leaders seize and cling to power.

— Tom Malinowski

When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.

— Frederick Lenz

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

— Michael Pare

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when…

— Benjamin Todd Jealous

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from…

— Elisabeth Shue

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

— Al Gore

“Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Power – any form of power – is acceptable only if it’s transparent and clean, if it’s exercised in a way that…

— Gianrico Carofiglio

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and…

— William Martin

I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge…

— Walter Mischel

If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of…

— Pat Buchanan

There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations;…

— Eugene McCarthy

The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you…

— Eric Balfour

Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which…

— Michel Foucault

I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to an…

— Alexandra Fuller

Making people fear the expression of their own power is a very effective way of disempowering them. It is not just those…

— Deeyah Khan

“He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without…

— Anonymous

“The animal does not rebel against its own kind. Consider animals: how just they are, how well-behaved, how they keep to the…

— Carl Jung

I always find power in struggles. You end up a lot happier that way.

— Alessia Cara

Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God.

— John Pearson

I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.

— Dorothy Hamill

We're really in control; that's the difference. We were out of control then.

— Peter Criss

Owning our power means claiming the credibility and uniqueness of our own humanity.

— Debbie Ford

The tongue is a sword or a magic wand; it can cut and kill or love and heal.

— Glori Lamisi Danaba

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

— Alain Prost

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

— Anonymous

I don't have any powers other than the power of sex. And humor.

— Morena Baccarin

I've learnt the power of words. I've had the worst thrown at me.

— Motsi Mabuse

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

— Catherynne M. Valente

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

— B. F. Skinner

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

— Eric Hoffer

“power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing.”

— Henry Kissinger

A king without his crown is still a king, a king without his courage is a sword without it's grip.

— Rei Fenusko

I am not in politics for power. I am in it for justice.

— Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya