Power Quotes

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.

Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.

I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.

A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.