Quotes about power
powerful people sticks
The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself. Ellen Barkin
powerful ambition generosity
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
power stupidity mind
A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.
powerful heart giving
We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.
powerful character fate
It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance. Ian Mcewan
power wake-up life-is
Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none. Hugh Hefner
powerful character thinking
I think one of the things I always loved about the comics was this idea that this character, when he goes berserk, that white, blind rage makes him incredibly powerful, but it's also a great flaw. It's almost like he loses consciousness of what he's doing. During that he can do great damage. Hugh Jackman
powerful blow rocks
Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning. Horace
powerful men important
In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen. Gloria Steinem
powerful mean thinking
Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that the only way to survive is to identify with the powerful. And I think that is not surprising, and it is what happens to a lot of right-wing women. I mean they think they better do what the powerful tell them do otherwise they'll be in even more trouble.
powerful men order
the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.
powerful nouns adjectives
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
powerful believe fate
... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects it will also affect them. On theother hand, members of less powerful groups are raised to believe (however illogically) that each individual can escape the group's fate. Thus, cohesion is encouraged on the one hand, and disunity is fostered on the other.
powerful eye vision
When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful. Giorgio de Chirico
powerful world earth
When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God , not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth , however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I ... what you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue ; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own. Giordano Bruno
powerful people solitude
I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars. Geraldine McCaughrean
powerful war fire
The atom bomb was no “great decision.” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. The dropping of the bombs stopped the war, save millions of lives. Harry S Truman
powerful thinking play
The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.
powerful america today
Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.
powerful believe people
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing. Harold Clurman
power use reason
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason. Immanuel Kant
powerful guy world
The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance. J. Michael Straczynski
powerful love-is most-powerful
I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all. J. K. Rowling
powerful people bigger-and-better
Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.
powerful reality voice
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
powerful men natural
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. Ivan Pavlov
powerful adrenal-glands appetite
Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.
powerful inspiration years
It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind H. L. Mencken
powerful way unseen
Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable. Guillermo del Toro
powerful communication special
The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language. J. Robert Oppenheimer
powerful data physics
The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science. Geoffrey West
power accepted conclusion
A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held. Georg Cantor
power majority supreme
Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority. Georg Buchner