1,008 Quotes Regarding Power


I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.
Ayelet Waldman

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria

The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
Kenneth Kaunda

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
Jack Kemp

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
James Naismith

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
Daniel J. Boorstin

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
Lucy Powell

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
Wole Soyinka

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield

People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
Imran Khan

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
Cornel West

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
Sandra Day O'Connor

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Thomas Hobbes

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Thomas Hobbes

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.
Kenny Loggins

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
Joy Page

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Lewis Mumford

Biology always beats will power.
Mehmet Oz

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.
Joshua Chamberlain