The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain. Susan B. Anthony
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road. Benjamin F. Wade
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. Jon Meacham
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me. Black Elk
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed. Margaret J. Wheatley
If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day. Julianna Margulies
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. Spiro T. Agnew
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. Andrea Dworkin
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. Pope Paul VI
Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. Bryant H. McGill
Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. Madeleine Albright
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. Charles Kingsley
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. J. G. Holland
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. Henry Adams
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. Madame de Stael
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. Benjamin Spock
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! David O. McKay