Quotes with power

Quotes 141 till 160 of 958.

  • Noam Chomsky Control is the source of strategic power.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bob Barr Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Troward Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Virgil Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Boris Johnson Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
    A wise guy playing the fool to win, Sunday Times, 16 July 2000, p. 17.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
    Cosmography (1992)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Andrew Jackson Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Paul Klee Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Cass Sunstein Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Raymond Holliwell Desire creates the power.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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  • Will Durant Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Jordan Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Ayn Rand Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Bernie Sanders Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine Do you want to be power in the world? Then be yourself.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Thomas Fuller Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • George Orwell Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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