Power Quotes

15857 Power quotes by 6592 unique authors

Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found. — F. A. Harper
To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our… — Unknown Author
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault
As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend… — Roger McDonald
Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a… — Roger McDonald
Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich
The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it… — Rudolph Rummel
The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which… — Friedrich August von Hayek
We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights,… — David Boaz
Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ...… — Unknown Author
The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of… — Steven Biko
Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being. — Roger McDonald
Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous… — Robert Boyle
Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. — Unknown Author
If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies volatile, and volatile… — Robert Boyle
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and… — C. D. Darlington
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood,… — William Buckland
Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by… — William Buckland
We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in… — James Hutton
When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole… — James Hutton
Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if… — William Shockley
Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of… — Unknown Author
As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social. — Jerome Ravetz
I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline… — Derek Barton
The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of… — William Lawrence Bragg

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