Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose BierceA leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph NaderI feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.
Rainer Maria RilkeIf knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
Letty CottinLove is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.
Jules MicheletFascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power
Benito MussoliniIt takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives
Clint EastwoodWe will fight this war on terror with every resource of our national power.
George W BushPatience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Leonardo Da VinciPower is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
C Wright MillsEquality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore De BalzacIf you are looking for a small slice of power then you could do worse than get involved in business.
Garet GarrettYou always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W Clement StoneWomen do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven
Suzanne Curchod NeckerFishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.
Bob Gibson'Yeah, baby! I didn't get to keep the pink baby doll outfit, but I wish I did because people are always telling me I should wear it.'
- on being a fem-bot in Austin Powers.
Cindy MargolisThe mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin WilsonPower and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Hannah ArendtI felt the power of Anfield, it was magnificent
Jose MourinhoChance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
OvidThe most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
Edwin LandLike my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.
Raymond BlancCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawFrom the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
Charles MansonCollectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.
Michael JefferyUntil one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThere is a lot of common sense in rationing and if you have the will power to do it, then it can really help in the long run.
Mavis GallantIt is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
Marya MannesKnowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis BaconA witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power
George MeredithMore than anything, the girl finds a way to win and finds a way to get her opponent uncomfortable. I'm sure she has a way to negate power still. [on the return of Martina Hingis]
Lindsay DavenportArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George WashingtonPleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
De Witt ClintonMen are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund FreudIn Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Israel was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tryanny and unrest.
Ronald ReaganDarren Campbell, a muscular, powerful young man inside him, who's pushing for Athens. And the starter's enjoying giving both of them a long hold.
Stuart StoreyKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin TofflerIf you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake
Alexander MaclarenFor the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
Matthew ArnoldDo not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail AdamsDistrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich NietzscheTime, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth
Thomas HuxleyNo power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
John JayThe only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph StalinWe hope that through these trade arrangements, through collabouration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.
Sellapan RamanathanHe is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Sir Walter ScottThe media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cosy up to power: We're supposed to be the check and balance on government [God help us all then!]
Amy GoodmanThe power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
Charles E HughesIn research the horizon recedes as we advance, and is no nearer at sixty than it was at twenty. As the power of endurance weakens with age, the urgency of the pursuit grows more intense... And research is always incomplete. (Isaac Casaubon)
Mark PattinsonWhere is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Kahlil Gibran
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