The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We’re here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.
When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
If I said it once, I’ll say it again: ‘We have the power to change everything.’
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Over time, we as humans have developed a different attitude towards nature and we’ve forgotten about our inner power.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
The law always limits every power it gives.
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Power wears out those who don’t have it.
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.
I think people really underestimate the power of just wanting to do it, and hard work, and competitive spirit, and preparation.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
There’s nothing that’s more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn’t belong.
Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological, sexual questions.
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
The way to have power is to take it.
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
I’m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that’s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that’s also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.
If you’re lucky enough to be famous, then it’s great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
