Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. It takes more courage to take a blow than give one. It takes more courage to try and talk things through than to start a war.
Mahatma GandhiPower is the ultimate aphrodisiac
Henry KissingerNo emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller The imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensA reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonI do like to empower women to be comfortable with their bodies, their sexuality.
Christina AguileraI put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. (Leviathan)
Thomas HobbesWealth is power. With wealth many things are possible.
George Samuel ClasonKnowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis BaconIt is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.
Emily CarrThere are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim
Billy GrahamGuns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat
Hermann GoeringWhen your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve
Napoleon HillWe will do everything in our power to make certain that this is as painless a process as possible for the benefit of the children [on divorcing Jude Law]
Sadie FrostAt the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
Brendan Francis BehanThe players who were great in their prime, well, they're still great. They might have lost a little of the power and speed, but their ball striking and technique is as good as ever.
Jeremy BatesWill power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur SchopenhauerYou 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 StoneBeauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Jean Paul RichterIdeas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?
Joseph StalinYou're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are. [on flying]
Duane G CareyI perceive that, in revolutions, the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Georges Jacques DantonThe writers of the Indian philosophies will survive, when the British dominion in India shall long have ceased to exist, and when the sources which it yielded of wealth and power are lost to remembrances
Warren HastingsThere can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
TacitusThe man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDiplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
Barbara TuchmanAll wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
Frank ChodorovWhen power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.
Jerry CantrellWe cannot suppose that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
Thomas ClarksonEvery person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
Aldous HuxleyWhen it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
Michael EndeI don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.
Jon Lee AndersonEvery man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
Jean AnouilhIn the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence
James MonroeDo I use my powers for evil? Well of course!
Paul McKennaTruth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner TruthThe hero of my tale - whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful - is Truth (Sevastopol in May)
Leo TolstoyConcentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton FriedmanOur appearance is a powerful communication tool, sending messages to every sighted person. Everyone is highly influenced by the visual impression of a person they are meeting for the first time
Catherine BellIf you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles GordonDuring the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Thomas HobbesI have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
Mahatma GandhiThe power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
Charles E HughesI admired Hitler because he came from being a little man with almost no education to power. But I didn't admire him for what he did with it.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIt's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.
Michael OvitzThe most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
Edwin LandWhen one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry MillerLove is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.
Jules MicheletIn 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 PattinsonBut he is a great manager, he is clever and used his power and his prestige. The referee should not allow it. I have a lot of respect for Ferguson. I call him boss because he is the manager's boss. Maybe when I become 60, the kids will call me the same.
Jose Mourinho
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