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Stephen King on power
Author: Stephen King“I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.” -Stephen King
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M. Scott Peck on power
Author: M. Scott Peck“Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.” -M. Scott Peck
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Samuel Johnson on power
Author: Samuel Johnson“There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.” -Samuel Johnson
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Cornelius Nepos on power
Author: Cornelius Nepos“Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.” -Cornelius Nepos
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Irving Berlin on power
Author: Irving Berlin“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” -Irving Berlin
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Robin Morgan on power
Author: Robin Morgan“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
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Nikola Tesla on power
Author: Nikola Tesla“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
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Robert Plant on power
Author: Robert Plant“How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?” -Robert Plant
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Colin Powell on power
Author: Colin Powell“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.” -Colin Powell
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Francis Bacon on power
Author: Francis Bacon“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.” -Francis Bacon
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Thomas Huxley on power
Author: Thomas Huxley“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.” -Thomas Huxley
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Virginia Woolf on power
Author: Virginia Woolf“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.” -Virginia Woolf
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James A. Baldwin on power
Author: James A. Baldwin“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
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Richard Dawkins on power
Author: Richard Dawkins“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
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James Madison on power
Author: James Madison“The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” -James Madison
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Bo Bennett on power
Author: Bo Bennett“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.” -Bo Bennett
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Friedrich August von Hayek on power
Author: Friedrich August von Hayek“To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.” -Friedrich August von Hayek
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Henry A. Kissinger on power
Author: Henry A. Kissinger“Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.” -Henry A. Kissinger
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Mary J. Blige on power
Author: Mary J. Blige“Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.” -Mary J. Blige
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John Ruskin on power
Author: John Ruskin“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.” -John Ruskin
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Samuel Butler on power
Author: Samuel Butler“They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, ‘Can he name a kitten?’” -Samuel Butler
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Calvin Coolidge on power
Author: Calvin Coolidge“Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.” -Calvin Coolidge
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Thurgood Marshall on power
Author: Thurgood Marshall“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.” -Thurgood Marshall
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Jim Carrey on power
Author: Jim Carrey“One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.” -Jim Carrey
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Tyler Perry on power
Author: Tyler Perry“Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.” -Tyler Perry