Power Quotes - page 6

Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. (Andrea Dworkin)
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
Who are we? We are the life force power of the universe. View quote
Jill Bolte Taylor
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. View quote
Robert Burton
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. View quote
Matthew Arnold
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. View quote
Émile Coué
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. View quote
Samuel Gompers
It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. View quote
Tom Stoppard
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! View quote
Samuel Richardson
4. Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. (Alvin Toffler)
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. View quote
Benjamin Spock
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. View quote
Marianne Williamson
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. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. View quote
Anthony Trollope
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. View quote
John Lehman
Men of power have not time to read; yet men who do not read are unfit for power. View quote
Michael Foot
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. (Thomas Hughes)
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
Liberal: a power worshipper without power. View quote
George Orwell
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. View quote
George Orwell
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. View quote
Bertrand Russell