Quotes with power

Quotes 81 till 100 of 958.

  • Margaret Atwood A word after a word after a word is power.
    Margaret Atwood
    Canadian writer, poet, criticus (1939 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Robert South Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Dryden All empire is no more than power in trust.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Aldous Huxley All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Albert Camus All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Thomas Paine All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Beatrix Potter All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Ronald Reagan All the wastes for a year from a nuclear power plant could be stored under a desk
    Burlington Free Press, 15-02-1980
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Francis Thompson 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
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Joan Didion Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Richard Bach An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Camille Paglia And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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