To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.
Politics is not about power.
The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
The point of journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable.
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Character is power.
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don’t ourselves experience.
I think that if you don’t do the full analysis of what the origin of the electrical power is, where it comes from, how you get batteries into these cars, what the cost is in terms of CO2 and the environment, I think the analysis that we are going to save the planet with electric cars is nonsense.
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time.
Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it’s not always that clear.
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it.
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
I’ve always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don’t care. I really believe we are all a part of God.
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.
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.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
Nuclear power is a young technology – there’s so much more to be discovered. That’s what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.
The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.
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.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.
I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
There’s power in naming yourself, in proclaiming to the world that this is who you are. Wielding this power is often a difficult step for many transgender people because it’s also a very visible one.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.
Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
Control is the source of strategic power.
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men’s lives.
People give more importance to material things, it all seems to be a power game, while people ought be making the most of every moment as time is fleeting.
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
