Power Quotes

15857 Power quotes by 6592 unique authors

The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety… — Thomas Jefferson
We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our… — Barack Obama
By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United… — Barack Obama
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. — Siegbert Tarrasch
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time,… — Virginia Woolf
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a… — E. M. Forster
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of… — Satchel Paige
Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see… — Ralph Nader
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby. — Elizabeth Janeway
Yeah, it was horrible! I mean really horrible. I felt incredibly awkward. It was not something I was [looking forward to]. I don't know, but… — Emma Watson
If we're going to make progress on this issue [of contraception], we have to be really clear about what our agenda is. We're not talking… — Melinda Gates
Every night on the stop global warming college tour, Laurie and I would tell these great young people that they have the power to do… — Sheryl Crow
You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change. — Ashley Judd
The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together. — Neil Young
Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in… — Justus von Liebig
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money,… — Dustin Hoffman
It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not… — Ban Ki-moon
You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a voice. Social networking… — Ban Ki-moon
Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power. — Winston Churchill
Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left… — Leonardo DiCaprio
One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own… — Georg Groddeck
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation… — Mikhail Bakunin
A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent… — George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and… — Leo Tolstoy
We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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