18th century Quote by Linda Colley

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that…

— William Wordsworth

Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.

— David Miliband

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

— Russell Baker

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

The trouble with so many of us is that,We underestimate,the power of simplicity Therefore,We have the power to control our lives

— VBOo

People who don't have as much power as they would like often begin by attributing their difficulties to the environment - competitors, bosses, economic…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up deeply unattractive…

— Linda Colley

“The powerful have a hard time seeing their own power and its effects. We do not see when our exercise of power is cutting…

— Andy Crouch

But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.

— N.K. Jemisin

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

— Maggie Kuhn

I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem…

— Sebastian Faulks