Power Quotes

Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.

~ Junot Díaz

Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.

~ Guy Fieri

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

~ Julia Child

The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.

~ John Burroughs

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

~ Lawrence M. Krauss

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

~ Voltaire

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

~ Mitt Romney

In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well.

~ Simon Schama

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

~ Jenkin Lloyd Jones

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

~ Bernard Katz

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

~ Beatrix Potter

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

~ Erwin Mcmanus

I talk about religion because it's one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that - I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too - but power and belonging are a big part of it.

~ Gene Luen Yang

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.

~ Julian Casablancas

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

~ George J. Mitchell

Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand.

~ Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

~ Aristotle

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else.

~ Monica Bellucci

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.

~ Bruce Lipton

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

~ Jenny Mollen

You must make women count as much as men you must have an equal standard of morals and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

~ Mary Shelley

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

~ Beyoncé Knowles

When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

~ Malala Yousafzai

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

~ Florence Kelley

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

~ Gloria Steinem

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

~ Virginia Woolf

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

~ Jackie Kennedy

We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

~ Michelle Obama

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

~ Anne Brontë

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

~ Mary Daly

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

~ Roseanne Barr

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!

~ Rachel Bilson

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

~ Candace Bushnell

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

~ Tahar Ben Jelloun