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"395 Power Quotes

Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
Acceptance Bay Because Being
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A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Picture Possess Generate light Long time
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The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?

Right Help Any power
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Power Poison Tragic
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Power Ultimate
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In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

Appearance Power Important Reality
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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing.

Power Legitimacy Tempt tests Strength
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I have some help on tweeting.

Help Some Tweeting
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Soft architectural Hands Power Cut stones
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The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Becomes Democracy Destinies Determination
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Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

Action Brought City Conscious
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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.

Paradox Dictator Climbed Power
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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Gives Just Learn Nobody
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A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

People Ballot Possess Unlimited power
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Any Blame Call Discourse
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The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Worst pain Insight Power
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

Abuse Disposition Does Majority
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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.

Branches Charter Constitutional Derived
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Abuse Essence Ever Government
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Having Men Ought Power
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Certain Certain Degree Degree Having
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Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

Change Essential Europe Experienced
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A king without power is an absurdity.
Absurdity King Power Without
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I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

Believe I Believe Importance Music
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POWER is not in the show of many WORDS but in the APPROPRIATE use of it.

Power Show Many words Appropriate use
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The Point of Power Is in the Present.

The point Power Present
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There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

More power Telling little All
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The political emancipation is in the majority of the people but the economic power is not in the majority…

Political emancipation Economic power The majority
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…whatever the capacity, we should always do our best to serve the interest of the people. We should also have it in the back of our minds that power is transient.

Capacity Interest People Power
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The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.

Man Carried Attack In power
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To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

Lead A country National consultation People representing
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When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Strong woman Throws away Strength Worse than
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I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

An actor Have power Just happens Opportunities
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The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

Power Lead Mislead Destroy
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I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world,because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

Democracy Most revolutionary thing World Have power
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What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Political correctness Debate The power Define
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Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.

Directing Constant test Communicative powers Explain
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Whatever My aims Agendas were Never asked
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

No doubt Super Capable Conquering
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People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.

People The world More impressed Power
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WHAT IS TRUE POWER?It is having power and knowing that you have power, and that the other person knows that you have power and yet you subdue the urge to use power when you don't need to. That is true power.

True power Having Knowing Other person
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The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.

The power Man's virtue Be measured Special effort
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There is more power in a mother's hand than in a king's scepter.

More power Mother's hand King scepter
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

The power Memory Gives rise Power
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Attempt Exercise power Someone else Avoid
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Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

Give Power Many Oppress
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Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

Inhumanity Keynote Stupidity In power
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Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

Socialism Like Christianity Destroyed itself Power
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in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

The absence Will power Complete collection Virtues
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If Power asks why, then is Power weakness.

Power ask Why Weakness
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