Power Quotes

The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.

~ John Podhoretz

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

~ Nydia Velazquez

My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.

~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front.

~ Jamie Dornan

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

~ James Baldwin

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

~ Vanessa Carlton

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

~ Paul Engle

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

~ Junot Díaz

For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means.

~ Rupi Kaur

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

~ Mahmoud Darwish

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

~ Charles Kingsley

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

~ Libba Bray

There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is it's the whole picture that counts.

~ Jeremy Stoppelman

We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

~ Yochai Benkler

Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers.

~ Scilla Elworthy

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

~ Janos Kadar

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

~ Vinoba Bhave

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

~ Cara Black

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

~ George Eliot

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

~ Ze Frank

I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won't feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.

~ Alana Stewart

We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled.

~ Barack Obama

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

~ Laura Bush

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

~ Lajos Kossuth

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

~ Barry Commoner

What is the future going to say about us now? What are our kids going to look at us and say, 'How could you not stop that person from getting into power? How could you not stop that environmental disaster that you saw coming a mile away?'

~ Leslie Odom

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

~ Jeff Goodell

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

~ Garrett Hardin

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

~ Noam Chomsky

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

~ Thomas Sowell

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

~ Bobby Seale

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

~ Ziggy Marley

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

~ Harriet Martineau

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

~ Alanis Morissette

The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.

~ Cynthia P. Schneider

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

~ Noam Chomsky

It would be a sign of society changing if we did finally legalize prostitution. Once it's legal, it doesn't mean your daughter's going to run out and be a ho. The more we sort of bring these things into the light, you bring these hidden vices into the light, the less power they have over our society. You make it legal, it tends to go away.

~ Thomas Jane

Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing - at least sometimes - without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

~ Camille Paglia

If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?

~ Marsha Blackburn