Power Quotes · Page 181

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't

— Thomas Keneally

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

— Baltasar Gracian

“For you to be able to turn on the light in the darkness, you have to live in the light.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind...

— Richard Whately

Not wanting to suffer criticism, the judiciary has used its power of contempt to stifle criticism.

— Prashant Bhushan

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

— Lesley Howarth

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

— Brian Eno

Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.

— Lesley Howarth

In our urge to automate, in our eagerness to adopt the latest innovations, we appear to have developed a habit of unthinkingly…

— Hannah Fry

“But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [...]”

— Wes Moore

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

— Derrick Bell

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

— Charles Lindbergh

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than…

— Lester B. Pearson

I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that…

— Mark Rylance

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the…

— Chris Lowe

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

— Pauline Kael

The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have…

— Babatunde Olatunji

An actor with a genuine gift has the power to transport you from whatever your own pains may be into an entirely…

— Robert Rinder

I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in…

— Jill Abramson

“Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't…

— Jared Diamond

Whatever motivates the enemies of charter schools, you cannot describe it as anything but evil. How else do you characterize adults willing…

— Miranda Devine

“Mary sat on a bench in the park. It was the middle of the night and she was alone and she felt…

— Olivia Fuller

In the old world of business, there was often just one seat at the leadership table for women, two at best. That…

— Sallie Krawcheck

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts…

— Richard Jefferies

You are the master of your emotions; you can keep them under control!

— Senora Roy

I've never been the one that liked to be controlled. I like to be in control of my own path.

— Todd Gurley

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

— Eric Bana

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

— Maya Angelou

“If a woman is not in control of her fertility, she is not in control of her life.”

— Willie Parker

“God can only relate with us based on our level of knowledge.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.

— Saul Alinsky

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

— Eric Hoffer

I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.

— Robin Trower

“The one who does not have the control for even a minute, he does not have the control forever.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The power of 'no' means you're educating people in how to treat you.

— Jessica Chastain

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

— Frank Herbert

“There is no other force destroying us like ignorance.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

— Yoko Ono

Magna Carta and the Civil War were about the power to tax.

— Priti Patel

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

— Oscar Wilde