c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.
— Adrien Brody
I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
— Callie Thorne
For me, seeing the progression of video games and consoles - whether it be PlayStation, Xbox, or whatever - I think just seeing how good they've gotten from the days when I first started playing is just amazing.
— Justin Verlander
My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.
— Rima Fakih
There's such a good vibe in Minneapolis. You've got an upscale downtown, and yet people aren't afraid to sit around the fire pit in the middle of winter and drink a beer. It's amazing.
— Philip Winchester
Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
— Steve Cropper
My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
— Aaron Ruell
I feel a lot of support from the people of Penrith and the Blue Mountains and will always remember the amazing welcome home I received after the London Olympics. But more importantly, it's during hard times that Westies come together.
— Jessica Fox
Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.
— Greg Bear
I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests.
— Enric Sala
One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
— Nancy McKeon
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
— Nancy McKeon
I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would like to continue writing novels, and hopefully, at some point, I would like to make the switch from being 'Stephen Hawking's daughter' to 'novelist Lucy Hawking,' and that will be a fabulous day.
— Lucy Hawking
I was really attracted to doing 'Game of Thrones' because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.
— Ellie Kendrick
I am just so appreciative of God's love. It's higher than any mountain, wider than any ocean, and wider than the whole universe. His love is just that amazing!
— Fred Hammond
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
— John Leonard
My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.
— Linda Hamilton
It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
— James Roosevelt
You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.
— Joe Lo Truglio
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
— Yael Grobglas
It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.
— Jamie Luner
The facilities are amazing here in McLaren. If you compare them to Sauber, who have good facilities in Formula 1, it's another level. But in terms of the people, the way they approach their jobs, is really amazing when you come into McLaren. The emphasis they have is very good and it gives you a big boost when you drive for this team.
— Sergio Perez
Haiti is an amazing country. Even though the people there have so little, their attitudes resonate a crazy amount of love and joy. It is truly inspiring to see that. My love for the country starts with them.
— Noah Munck
It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.
— Michael Arlen
With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.
— Jennifer Donnelly
It's amazing how much of a bodily experience being scared is. It doesn't take very long of hyperventilating to feel like you're going to pass out. It's one of those things where being scared is more of a physiological response that you can pretty easily manipulate. So in those types of scenes, it just takes a lot of energy.
— Willa Fitzgerald
Beauty is power a smile is its sword. 
— John Ray
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
— Malcolm X
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
— Oprah Winfrey
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.
— Atifete Jahjaga
Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
— Leroy Hood
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.
— Kristin Armstrong
Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.
— Pete Carroll
Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.
— Mark McKinnon
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
— Anne Frank
There is more power in unity than division.
— Emanuel Cleaver
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
— Mike Ditka
Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
— Wassily Kandinsky
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
— Christopher Reeve
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
— James Madison
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
— William James
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
— James Madison
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
— Alice Waters
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
— Plato
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
— Denise Morrison
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
— Agnes de Mille
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
— Voltaire
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
— Julius Caesar
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
— George Orwell
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
— Malcolm X
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
— James A. Baldwin
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
— John Jay
No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt?
— Cesare Beccaria
There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
— Bill McKibben
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
— Jeremy Bentham
Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.
— Keith Haring
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
— Aristotle
And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
— Ayrton Senna
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
— Ed Koch
We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
— Gilbert Baker
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
— Muhammad Ali
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
— John Adams
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
— Chanakya
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
— Tom Clancy
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
— John Stuart Mill
The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.
— Klaus Schwab
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
— Mao Zedong
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
— Meryl Streep
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
— Eckhart Tolle
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
— Maria Montessori
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
— George W. Bush
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
— Barack Obama
Education is the development of power and ideal.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.
— Les Brown
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
— Morihei Ueshiba
Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.
— Mark Z. Jacobson
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
— Paul Harris
We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
— Young Thug
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
— John F. Kennedy
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
— Howard Schultz
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
— Thomas Malthus
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
— Samuel Johnson
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
— Mark Hyman
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
— Alan Cohen
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
— Thomas Jefferson
Thanks to Hillary Clinton, Iran is now the dominant Islamic power in the Middle East, and on the road to nuclear weapons. Hillary Clinton's support for violent regime change in Syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen - while giving ISIS a launching pad for terrorism against the West.
— Donald Trump
Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
— Bobby Seale
You must make women count as much as men you must have an equal standard of morals and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way. 
— Emmeline Pankhurst
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
— Thomas Hobbes
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
— Ida Tarbell
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
— Eckhart Tolle
The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
— Gary Zukav
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
— Edmund Burke
When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalist is to confront those who are abusing power.
— Jorge Ramos
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
— George Orwell
Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.
— Nick Rahall
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
— Robert Anthony
Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
— Seth Berkley
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power.
— Whitney Wolfe
Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
— Abraham Lincoln
Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
— Kris Kristofferson
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.
— Leslie Dewan
Balk the enemy's power force him to reveal himself. 
— Sun Tzu
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.
— Nhat Hanh
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— John Acton
Owning a great golf course gives you great power.
— Donald Trump
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
— Ayn Rand
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
— Winston Churchill
Don't underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It's worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton.
— Dita Von Teese
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
— Mark Twain
You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.
— Tom Ridge
No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
— Louise L. Hay
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
— Patricia Cornwell
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
— Joseph Stalin
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
— Noam Chomsky
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
— Marcus du Sautoy
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
— Louisa May Alcott
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
— Sojourner Truth
We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
— Paul Kagame
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
— Abigail Adams
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you. 
— Orison Swett Marden
By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
— Mark Zuckerberg
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
— Frederick the Great
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
— Catherine the Great
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
— Cal Thomas
There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
— J. J. Watt
Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.
— Jessica Valenti
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
— Gordon Brown
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
— Bruce Lee
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
— Alexander Hamilton
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
— Benjamin Disraeli
In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curable, but they're very, very highly treatable, and early information is power. The only thing - literally the only thing - that is different is the stigma. And we have to overcome it, because it is now the only reason people are dying.
— David Furnish
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
— Orison Swett Marden
What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
— William Plomer
In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.
— Winona LaDuke
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
— Richard Dawkins
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
— John F. Kennedy
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
— Alexander the Great
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
— Morihei Ueshiba
There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selflessness toward spiritual goals. The power of God working through such channels will bring unimaginable blessings to all concerned.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
— Bertrand Russell
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
— Voltaire
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
— Robin Morgan
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
— J. K. Rowling
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
— George Bernard Shaw
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
— Ayn Rand
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
— Ronald Reagan
I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
— Harvey Fierstein
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
— Milton Friedman
I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves. 
— Mary Shelley
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
— Charles Simmons
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
— Tony Robbins
The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.
— Yoko Ono
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
— Max Weber
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
— Daniel Goleman
Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.
— Devon Aoki
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
— Jonathan Sacks
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
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
— William Glasser
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
— Isabel Allende
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Force always attracts men of low morality.
— Albert Einstein
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
— Oliver Stone
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
— Joseph Stalin
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
— George Bernard Shaw
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
— Nikola Tesla
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. 
— Socrates
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
— Hannah Arendt
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
— James L. Buckley
There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.
— Julie Taymor
I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself.
— Miranda Kerr
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
— Epicurus
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
— Sandra Cisneros
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
— Herbert Hoover
This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
— Alice Walker
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
— Robert Frost
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
— Andrew Jackson
All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.
— John James Audubon
I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.
— Thomas Hooker
If I could have a special power in real life I'd love to fly.
— Ali Larter
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
— Ted Nugent
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
If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.
— Nikola Tesla
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
— Andrew Jackson
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
— Ken Blanchard
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.
— Robin S. Sharma
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
— Albert Einstein
Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.
— Isaac Newton
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
— W. H. Murray
A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
— Dambisa Moyo
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
— Jack Black
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
— Swami Vivekananda
The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.
— Bob Marley
Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.
— Bonnie Raitt
Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.
— Travis Bradberry
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
— Khalil Gibran
Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.
— Ellen Key
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
— Aristotle
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
— John Adams
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
— Richard Dawkins
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
— David Hume
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
— Louise Slaughter
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
— William Booth
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
— Lincoln Steffens
Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.
— Stephen Bannon
People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
— Linda Blair
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
— Carl Jung
Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
— Ramez Naam
In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
— George Mason
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
— Susan B. Anthony
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
— Ayn Rand
Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
— Kevyn Aucoin
The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.
— Samuel Adams
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
— Peter Drucker
The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.
— Chad Hurley
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
— Denis Diderot
I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
— Oskar Schindler
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
— Charles de Montesquieu
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
— Frederick Law Olmsted
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
— Friedrich Schiller
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
— Robert Henri
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
— Muhammad Iqbal
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
— George Orwell
The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
— Joseph Pulitzer
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
— Shakti Gawain
Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
— Joy Page
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
— John Henrik Clarke
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.
— George Lucas
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
— Gloria Steinem
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
— Vaclav Havel
I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
— Eli Whitney
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
— Noam Chomsky
There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.
— Orison Swett Marden
As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.
— Rodrigo Duterte
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.
— William Godwin
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
— James Madison
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
— Indira Gandhi
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
— William Gaddis
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
— Walter Annenberg
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
— Henry Kissinger
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
— Samuel Gompers
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
— C. S. Lewis
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
— Albert Einstein
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.
— Oswald Mosley
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
— Marilyn French
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
— Ai Weiwei
I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.
— Joan Collins
The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.
— Steve Stockman
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
— Huey Newton
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
— Thomas Jefferson
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
— Judd Rose
The power of social media is it forces necessary change.
— Erik Qualman
If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
— Norman Mailer
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
— John Stuart Mill
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. 
— Walter Scott
The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
— Craig T. Nelson
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
— Eric Hoffer
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
— Phillips Brooks
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
— Susan Sarandon
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
— Leo Tolstoy