Power Quotes - page 12

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. (Joan Didion)
Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. View quote
Herodotus
The will is free Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful The seeds of godlike power are in us still Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Time may restore us in his course Goethes sage mind and Byrons force But where will Europes latter hour Again find Wordsworths healing power. View quote
Matthew Arnold
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. View quote
James Baldwin
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. View quote
James Baldwin
Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached. View quote
Imre Lakatos
I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before. (James Irwin)
This... was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas. View quote
Ray Kurzweil
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. View quote
Fawn M. Brodie
The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender. View quote
William Booth
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. View quote
Don DeLillo
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream. View quote
Don DeLillo
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it? View quote
George Fox
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. View quote
John Jay
The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. View quote
Davy Crockett
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. View quote
Stephen Covey
Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. (William Cowper)
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
Character is power. View quote
Booker T. Washington
[...] the love of power excludes all others. View quote
Indro Montanelli