Power Quotes

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Words have a lot of power.

Our increasingly electrified, electronic, and data-driven society places steadily rising demand on reliable baseload power - that is, on electricity available 24/7/365. Servers never sleep, nor does air conditioning during hot nights, and in Asia's megacities, subways and electric trains take only brief naps between midnight and 5 A.M.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

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.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.