Power
Definition: The ability or capacity to do something or act in a particular way. Supply (a device) with mechanical or electrical energy.
Number of Quotes: 45
My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression ... I feel an affinity for art when it was made a
form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers ... I try to bewitch the crowd.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because
the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
Bella Abzug
I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
Bella Abzug
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
Bella Abzug
Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You
can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.
Douglas Adams
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry Adams
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Henry Adams
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry Adams
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry Adams
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if
he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.
John Quincy Adams
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams
This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected
with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.
John Quincy Adams
There is no such thing as great talent without great will-power.
Honoré de Balzac
When you apply the word power to a man, it means strong and bold - very positive
attributes. When you use it to describe a woman, it suggests bitchy, insensitive, hard.
Jill Barad
I believe in benevolent dictatorships, provided I am the dictator.
Richard Branson
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery;
to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de La Bruyère
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now, he hasn't been a creator, only a
destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined, and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Anton Chekhov
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Dalberg-Acton
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I
wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
Katherine Dunn
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too!
Elizabeth I
The stronger man's argument is always the best.
Jean de La Fontaine
There are only two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is
the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money away from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
Henry Ford
Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in
a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade
Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people.
Noreena Hertz
Success is power; because it maketh reputation of wisdom, or good fortune; which makes men either fear him or rely on him.
Thomas Hobbes
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support, and opens the way to wealth, honor, and happiness.
John Howe
When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's
concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy
I see nothing wrong with power as long as I am the fellow who has it.
Cecil King
We sometimes take for granted the freedom and power of independent thought and action. And only after
it's been compromised, do we fully realize how fundamental it is to the pursuit of economic opportunity.
Arthur Levitt
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live
under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be
satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas
Who controls the past controls ... the future: who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Anthony Robbins
Men are still clinging to the hope that women are powerless, because they haven't got much else to cling to.
Harriet Rubin
O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But
when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too
careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
Oscar Wilde
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