Power Quotes

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.