Power Quotes

15857 Power quotes by 6592 unique authors

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. — Roseanne Barr
'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking. — Roseanne Barr
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. — John Adams
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger… — John Adams
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's… — Drew Barrymore
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a… — Roland Barthes
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant. — Joe Barton
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone. — Abu Bakar Bashir
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority… — Samuel Adams
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of… — Jean Baudrillard
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's… — Gary Bauer
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet:… — Scott Adams
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly,… — Charles A. Beard
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will… — Simone de Beauvoir
The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and… — Glenn Beck
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our… — Robert Foster Bennett
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. — Joseph Addison

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