Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. Hannah Arendt
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. David Hume
In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need. Rick Warren
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation. Jonathan Sacks
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. Francis Thompson
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. Jean de la Bruyere
Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Barbara Corcoran
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. Noam Chomsky
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle. Martin Scorsese
There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation. Dennis Prager
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. Blaine Lee
The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption. Rick Perry
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. Toni Morrison
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. David Seabury
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. Baruch Spinoza
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good. Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power. Carol P. Christ
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. Isabel Allende
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. Emile M. Cioran
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. Tom Hanks