Quotes about power
powerful maturity empires
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
powerful science skills
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent. Isaac Newton
powerful mean reality
I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right. Irving Howe
powerful thinking moments
I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage. Irving Azoff
powerful military heart
Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel... Jews don't like big military budgets. But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States... American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don't want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel. Irving Kristol
powerful knowing body
Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society. Inga Muscio
powerful father doe
My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. Indra Nooyi
powerful
He's tremendous. He's nimble and powerful at once. Steve Sabol
power throws tight
He throws a tight spiral, he can throw it a long way and he has a lot of power in his arm. I feel like if we are open, we are going to get the ball. Derrick Williams
power
He said we have to take it to them. But they got another one on the power play.
power
Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all. Adolf Hitler
power found creatures
Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power. Friedrich Nietzsche
power religion world
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
power reality political
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
powerful self deception
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
powerful people justice
But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.
powerful justice impulse
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
power growth survival
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
powerful satan accomplices
If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
power government support
The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those ... who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy. ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded. Franklin Pierce
powerful matter literature
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. Jeanette Winterson
powerful literature language
That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
powerful writing soul
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.
powerful stupid school
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.
powerful thinking four
I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes. Jim Courier
powerful belief destructive
Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated. Jena Malone
powerful media television
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented. Jim Fowler
powerful knowledge knowing
Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing
powerful two numbers
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
powerful jogging feels
Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky! Jennifer Hudson
power decisions-we-make work-relationships
We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it's about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.
powerful successful college
The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. Jennifer Granholm
powerful discipline doctrine
The effect of Judaism's vigorous promotion of monotheism, and the dignity that this doctrine conferred on all humankind, as created in God's image, coupled with the discipline, warnth and security offered by the Jewish way of life, cannot be overestimated as a powerful catalyst for the undermining and eventual destruction of Graeco-Roman paganism. Jeff Cohen