Power Quotes

I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb] ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon s

~ Harold Urey

Statements of fact are after all statements, which presumes a number of questionable judgements: that those statements are worth making, perhaps more worth making than certain others, that I am the sort of person entitled to make them and perhaps able to guarantee their truth, that you are the kind of person worth making them to, that something useful is accomplished by making them, and so on.

~ Terry Eagleton

All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though we have something called factual knowledge which may then be distorted by particular interests and judgements, although this is certainly possible; it is also that without particular interests we would have no knowledge at all, because we would not see the point of bothering to get to know anything. Interests are constitutive of our knowledge, not merely prejudices which imperil it. The claim that knowledge should be 'value-free' is itself a value-judgement.

~ Terry Eagleton

The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent ingenious justifications for inequality, the punishments to those who try to remedy it.

~ Bertrand Russell

It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42

~ Alaa Al Aswany

The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.

~ John Bunyan

I don't want anything to happen to you. You being hurt...that thought fills me with dread. I can't promise not to interfere, not if I think you'll come to harm. He pauses and takes a deep breath. I love you, Anastasia. I will do everything in my power to protect you. I cann't imagine my life without you.

~ E.l. James

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.

~ H.l. Mencken

Shamed and enraged, I sit by the side of the road and cry.Eclipsed by a sense of disgrace, my emotions feel momentarily stifled and disconnected. Instead of anger, I feel dishonored and exposed. I cannot even formulate my thoughts, much less speak them. My integrity and humility have been violated. I have only my own indignation to spur me on.

~ Holly A. Smith

If you can't let go of the power you possess, if you can't surrender it gracefully when it is time to do so, you will most likely abuse it.

~ Donald Cozzens

No one is charismatic. Someone becomes charismatic in history, socially. The question for me is once again the problem of humility. If the leader discovers that he is becoming charismatic not because of his or her qualities but because mainly he or she is being able to express the expectations of a great mass of people, then he or she is much more of a translator of the aspirations and dreams of the people, instead of being the creator of the dreams. In expressing the dreams, he or she is recreating these dreams. If he or she is humble, I think that the danger of power would diminish.

~ Myles Horton

I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.

~ Erica Goros

Attitude is something that comes to your rescue when you're looking for help from external sources.

~ Sachin Kumar Puli

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

People have the power to change their perspective. They just get caught up in an endless cycle of foolish things that don’t matter.

~ Jamie Magee

There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.

~ Michelle Sagara West

Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.

~ Victor Robert Lee

There are two powers in this world which cannot be matched. Beauty and Youth. Buy the beauty and imprison the youth. Give the best models, actress, and girls from town and nail them. I do not care how much it costs.

~ Ravindra Shukla

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

~ Matthew Kelly

The heart is natures most immense untapped resource. Utilising the power of the heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.

~ Steven Redhead

Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

~ Orson Scott Card

While knowledge is powerful it should be approached with the utmost respect and caution.

~ Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre

Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the complex and far-reaching physical consequences, a deep sense of respect for the power of the symmetry laws never fails to develop.

~ Chen Ning Yang

The potential, for anything, was overwhelming to a degree that bothered him. It wasn’t, he thought, the idea of power. It certainly wasn’t that nervous feeling T.C. would get in the pit of his stomach when he knew he had an incredible opportunity in front of him, that amazing brief pause before an act of creation. This was something else. Something to fear and respect.

~ Adam P. Knave

To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.

~ Kaiden Blake

We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.

~ Patti Digh

Love is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

My Master had power and law on his side, I had a determined will. There is might in each.

~ Harriet Jacobs

The very least among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I do not think anyone can read the letters which passed between Clarke and [Anthony] Collins without admitting that Collins, who writes with wonderful Power and closeness of reasoning, has by far the best of the argument, so far as the possible materiality of the soul goes; and that in this battle the Goliath of Freethinking overcame the champion of what was considered orthodoxy.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

~ Thomas Aquinas

What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master!

~ Mihail Drumeş

Either ‘the group’ is superior or the individual is superior. Marxism, socialism, fascism, and pure democracy are all forms that give power to ‘the group’ and then use violence to force individuals to obey the dictates of ‘the group’. The concept of liberty is one in which the individual - in the exercise of his unalienable rights - is superior to every and all powers. That is what the Founders intended. That is what we are supposed to have under the ‘contracts’ of the Declaration of Independence and the state and federal constitutions. That is what I am entitled to as an American. That is what I insist upon. And that is what I will kill for.

~ Dave Champion

It is passing strange that our philosophers of the Revolutionary period should have formed their conception of a free society by reference to societies where everyone was not free - where, in fact, the vast majority were not free. It is no less strange that they never stopped to ask whether perhaps the characters which they so much admired were not made possible by the existence of a class which was not free. Rousseau, in whose philosophy were many things, was fully conscious of this difficulty: Must we say that liberty is possible only on a basis of slavery? Perhaps we must.

~ Bertrand De Jouvenel

There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.

~ James Burnham

The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.

~ Christian D. Larson

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

~ Yanni

There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.

~ Gangaji

White men are irresponsible with their power and money. Our beautiful earth is million of years old, and in a mere five hundred years, white people have nearly destroyed it. Another hundred years like the last hundred, and there won't be a living creature left on the planet.-character Amber Johnson (Broken)

~ J. Matthew Nespoli