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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
George W. Bush on power

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
Judd Rose on power

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria, Jr. on power

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Simone Weil on power

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone Weil on power

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Simone Weil on power

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.
Isabel Allende on power

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
Salma Hayek on power

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young on power

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
Robert Hall on power

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Theodor Adorno on power

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Stanley Kubrick on power

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer on power

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann on power

People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on power

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.
Paul Ryan on power

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
George W. Bush on power

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift on power

Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Hannah Arendt on power

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
Sitting Bull on power