Quotes with power

Quotes 841 till 860 of 958.

  • Carl Sagan We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • John D. Mcdonald We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • Thomas Paine We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Dora Russell We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
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  • Charles Horton Cooley We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • J. William Fulbright We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
    J. William Fulbright
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1905 - 1995)
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  • John F. Kennedy We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Richard Dawkins We have the power to turn against our creators.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Barack Obama We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
    New Hampshire Primary Night (8 Jan. 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • William E. Gladstone We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • William Gladstone We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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  • George Sheehan We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
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  • Barbara Lee We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Ben Carson We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Tryon Edwards We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère 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 Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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