c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
— Benazir Bhutto
I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.
— Robert Downey, Jr.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
— Honore de Balzac
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
— Anne Lamott
Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
— Larry Page
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
— Tony Robbins
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
— Andrew Jackson
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
— Vladimir Lenin
The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.
— Roy Moore
When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
— Radhanath Swami
Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded.
— Max Heindel
The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.
— Charles Spurgeon
For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
— Abraham Lincoln
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
— John Maynard Keynes
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
— Stephen Hawking
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
— Scott Adams
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
— Henri Nouwen
I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.
— Pele
The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe, how you live your life, it's not my place to judge. I don't have that power. I don't want that power. It's my place to love and to show God's love to other people, even if they don't live a life like I live.
— Carrie Underwood
I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.
— Rozonda Thomas
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
— Thurgood Marshall
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
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
— Wayne Dyer
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
— Joseph de Maistre
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
— Walter Scott
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
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
— Nelson Rockefeller
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
— Peter Drucker
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
— Georges Jacques Danton
The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.
— Maggie Gallagher
If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.
— Emil Zatopek
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
— John Muir
I believe the gun has no power at all.
— Malala Yousafzai
It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.
— Yochai Benkler
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
— Alfred Adler
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
— Gary Hamel
I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
— Callie Thorne
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
— Anthony Trollope
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
— Calvin Coolidge
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
— Douglas MacArthur
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. 
— Alexander Graham Bell
There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.
— Kenny Loggins
I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
— Taylor Wilson
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
— Rene Descartes
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
— Henry A. Wallace
You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.
— Black Elk
A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.
— Leslie Dewan
The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.
— Mary Gaitskill
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
— James Naismith
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
— Ethel Watts Mumford
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
— Marina Abramovic
Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking. 
— Susan L. Taylor
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.
— Muhammad Yunus
Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.
— Ellen G. White
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
— John Adams
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
— Alfred A. Montapert
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
— Sophie Swetchine
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
— Rumi
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
— John Adams
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
— Harry Browne
Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix.
— Michael Burgess
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
— Thomas J. Watson
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
— Salvador Dali
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
— Albert Bandura
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
— Giacomo Casanova
As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
— Majora Carter
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.
— Tom Rice
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
— John Marshall
We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power, for only when we Han are in control politically do we have a nation.
— Sun Yat-sen
Impeachment must not be a raw exercise of political power in which the House impeaches whoever it wishes for any reason it deems sufficient. Indeed, it is the solemn duty of all of the members of the House in any impeachment case to exercise their judgment faithfully within the confines established by our Constitution.
— Charles T. Canady
Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
— Maria Cantwell
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.
— George A. Sheehan
A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
— Zac Goldsmith
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
— Abigail Adams
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
— Aeschylus
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
— Albert Einstein
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
— Alvin Toffler
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
— Aneurin Bevan
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
— Blaise Pascal
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
— Booker T. Washington
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
— Jonathan Swift
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
— Baruch Spinoza
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
— Nelson Rockefeller
The way to have power is to take it.
— Boss Tweed
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
— Benazir Bhutto
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.
— Robert Kennedy
Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.
— Randeep Hooda
We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution.
— Fred Hampton
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
— Barbara Corcoran
Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
There's so many people who have never heard of us, but I think what we've learned is you can't underestimate the power of a core fan base and people who believe what you're doing. I think they're the ultimate marketers. They're the ones promoting us.
— Tyler Joseph
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
— Madame de Stael
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
— Anita Roddick
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
— Patch Adams
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
— Oprah Winfrey
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
— John Stuart Mill
I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
— Ken Blanchard
To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.
— Tiberius
Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.
— Marc Andreessen
I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
— Eddie Izzard
Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.
— Alan Moore
Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
— Laura Marano
The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.
— George William Russell
By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.
— Ben Shapiro
Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
— Pamela Meyer
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
— Sydney J. Harris
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
— Aldous Huxley
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
— William Pitt
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
— Brigham Young
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
— Michel Foucault
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
— Joan Didion
The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
— Peace Pilgrim
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
— Henry A. Wallace
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.
— Kenny Loggins
Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.
— Richard Neal
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
— Wole Soyinka
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
— Orville Wright
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
— Pericles
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
— Oprah Winfrey
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
— Charlie Chaplin
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
— Robert Caro
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
— Harvey Fierstein
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
— Cai Guo-Qiang
I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'
— Josh Keaton
Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.
— Gene Simmons
Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.
— Nick Harkaway
My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
— Saul Alinsky
The power of the Internet is also its limitation - it provides access to large amounts of information without providing guidance on how to sort out what is credible and what is not.
— Dean Ornish
The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. 
— Kenneth Kaunda
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
— Richard Holloway
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
— Jean Paul
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
— Roger Babson
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
— Ayn Rand
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
— James A. Baldwin
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
— Plutarch
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
— John Galsworthy
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
— James Madison
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
— Upton Sinclair
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
— John F. Lehman, Jr.
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
— Phillips Brooks
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
— Vaclav Havel
Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
— Samuel Smiles
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.
— Gabriel Heatter
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
— Clarence Darrow
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
— Roland Barthes
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
— Horatio Nelson
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
— Frank Chodorov
Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.
— Conrad Burns
The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
— Bobby Seale
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
— James F. Cooper
To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.
— James E. Rogers
You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
— William Lloyd Garrison
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
— Muhammad Iqbal
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
— Pierre de Fermat
Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
— Omar Bongo
One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.
— David Simon
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
— Joshua Chamberlain
The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.
— Alton Brown
I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
— Black Elk
I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
— Ralph Steadman
The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.
— Josiah Stamp
Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.
— Michael Burgess
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
— Denis Diderot
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
— George Orwell
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
— Sitting Bull
I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power.
— George Harrison
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
— William Ellery Channing
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
— Victor Hugo
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
— Mercy Otis Warren
The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
— Georg Buchner
It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.
— Samuel Wilson
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
— Abigail Adams
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
— William Henry Harrison
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
Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
— John Keegan
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
— Eric Sevareid
Never underestimate the power of the ocean.
— Heidi Klum
We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources.
— Vladimir Putin
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
— James Madison
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
— James Madison
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
— Stephen Covey
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
— Blaise Pascal
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
— Alan Watts
The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.
— Roy Moore
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.
— Lois Lowry
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
— Francis Bacon
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.
— Evgeny Morozov
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
— Carlos Castaneda
Google is a private company. It has the capacity to utilize its massive power for whatever political agenda it chooses. But for it to pretend to be an advocate for Internet freedom while simultaneously disadvantaging messages it finds politically incorrect is deeply hypocritical.
— Ben Shapiro
I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
— Leif Garrett
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
— C. Wright Mills
Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.
— Louis C. K.
I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
— Quincy Jones
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
— Nas
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.
— Michael Burgess
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
— Christopher Marlowe
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
— William Wordsworth
The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
— Caleb Cushing
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
— Fredric Jameson
There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
— Dennis Prager
Biology always beats will power.
— Mehmet Oz
Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way people have voices and votes to push back. 
— Elizabeth Warren
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
— Peter L. Berger
Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.
— Nick Hanauer
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
— Hannah Arendt
You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
— Pope Francis
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
— Thomas Malthus
What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?
— Jules Verne
I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
— Gabrielle Union
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
— Don DeLillo
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
— Henry Kissinger
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
— Max Weber
I believe in the power of the human spirit.
— Bob Harper
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
— Stephen Kinzer
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
— Julia Margaret Cameron
I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
— Paris Hilton
When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.
— James Belushi
I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.
— Geri Halliwell
When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
— Yoko Ono
It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
— Ramana Maharshi
Don't believe the hype don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.
— RuPaul
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
— Aldous Huxley
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.
— Pierre de Fermat
Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
— Pete Stark
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
— Jose Saramago
The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
— Patricia McCormick
There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.
— Charles Spurgeon
There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.
— Condoleezza Rice
Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.
— Evel Knievel
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
— Noam Chomsky
Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.
— Inga Muscio
I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
— Mallory Ortberg
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
— Steven Wright
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
— Anita Hill
I cured with the power that came through me.
— Black Elk
For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.
— Jane McGonigal
Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.
— Michio Kaku
The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.
— Julian Assange
It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
— Kurt Vonnegut
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
— Friedrich Schiller
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
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
— Lord Acton
The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.
— Ben Shapiro
We've sued out-of-state power plants that are polluting our air and led a coalition of attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Massachusetts against efforts in the U.S. House of Representatives to remove critical environmental regulations that protect New York communities from toxic pollution.
— Eric Schneiderman
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
— Arthur C. Clarke
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
— Charles de Gaulle
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
— Ralph Nader
Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
— Olusegun Obasanjo
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
— Guillermo del Toro
On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.
— Florence Kelley
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.
— John Wycliffe
The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God.
— Jonathan Mayhew
America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
— Nancy Pearcey
An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
— Phaedrus
Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
— Cher
The law has no power over heroes.
— Charlotte Lennox
With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.
— Billy Mitchell
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
— John Stuart Mill
I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.
— Ruth Buzzi
Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.
— Fredric Jameson
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
— Maria Weston Chapman
For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.
— Julia Butterfly Hill
I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.
— Austin Nichols
It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.
— Elon Musk
It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.
— Elon Musk
The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.
— Nicolas Cage
What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.
— Vladimir Putin