Quotes about power
power mysterious indefinable
There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything. Mahatma Gandhi
power body earth
The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power. James Hutton
power accomplish seasons
You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships. James Hunter
power might force
Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.
powerful lying winning
There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win. James Hunt
powerful thinking anxiety
Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression. James Howard Kunstler
powerful tired ice
I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface trembling—it seems ready to give but it never does. I am uninterested in current events. How can I justify this? How can I explain it? I don't want to have the same vocabulary I've always had. I want something richer, broader, more penetrating and powerful. James Salter
powerful names long
Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no. James Russell Lowell
power government defense
A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism. James Q. Wilson
powerful exercise government
Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.
powerful land work-ethic
Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic. James H. Douglas
powerful eye light
You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless. Laura Esquivel
powerful thinking ideas
If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed. Lal Bahadur Shastri
powerful moments imagine
I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine. Libba Bray
powerful might opiates
Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?
powerful knowing want
It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.
powerful one-day groups
The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states. Lester B. Pearson
power paradoxical
Power is paradoxical. Friedrich Durrenmatt
power world want
The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.
powerful struggle law
It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or for raw materials, international friction would be reduced. This would merely put a contest of force in the place of what can only metaphorically be called the "struggle" of competition and would transfer to powerful and armed states, subject to no superior law, the rivalries which between individuals had to be decided without recourse to force. Friedrich August von Hayek
power democracy politics
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
powerful men liberty
The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.
powerful world wealth
And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?
powerful organization liberty
The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.
powerful men weak-man
Even weak men when united are powerful. Friedrich Schiller
power literature world
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
powerful men he-man
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.
power persuasive rhetoric
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
power government hands
They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people. Franklin D. Roosevelt
power america way
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
powerful views clouds
Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world. George Friedman
powerful blood people
Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music. George Gershwin
powerful creativity appreciate
The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity. George Gilder