Power Quotes
I am often asked why I nearly always select old material, fairy tales and legends for my stage works. I do not look upon them as old, but rather as valid material. The time element disappears, and only the spiritual power remains. My entire interest is in the expression of spiritual realities. I write for the theater in order to convey a spiritual attitude.
– Carl Orff
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The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
– John Owen
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While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.
– Bill Owens
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You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you. All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog. People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden. People need somebody they can send a check at Christmas. So stay poor. Charity isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.
– Chuck Palahniuk
– William S. Paley
– John Pearson
By this time I had fallen in love with him as we both came from the same type of humble back ground. Also because he put his energy behind working people. With the power of the shirtless ones (the poor) he was swept to power. He was then put under arrest so we decided to get married secretly .
– Evita Peron
There are fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, who appear to be in charge of the White House at the moment, but they are very different from the Christian gentlemen who ran the British Empire and believed they were doing good works around the world. These days it's about naked power.
– John Pilger
– David E. Price
– Vladimir Putin
What is pretty clear is that we will be faced with the specter of another nuclear power which can use their weapons to threaten South Korea, to threaten Japan... with every prospect that they will sell some of that plutonium and nuclear bombs to the highest bidder so they might end up in American cities as well.
– William J. Perry
– Wilferd A. Peterson
If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.
– Marco Polo
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– Catherine Ponder
I was the first rock'n'roll successful female who led a band of men and seriously played an instrument. It hasn't been done since. Girl power isn't about having sex whenever you feel like it and talking about it. It's not about being butch either. I always say I had my legs apart on stage, but at night they were firmly closed.
– Suzi Quatro
Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
– Ayn Rand
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I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's my agenda. Now, respectfully, when you start talking about a liberal agenda and all the, quote, 'liberal bias' in the media, I quite frankly, and I say this respectfully but candidly to you, I don't know what you're talking about.
– Dan Rather
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As a mere exchange of material goods, Christmas is coming under the power of wanting-for-oneself; it is becoming the instrument of an insatiable egoism and has fallen under the sway of possessions and of power - whereas this event in fact brings us exactly the opposite message. Pruning back Christmas so that it is once again simple would be an enormous achievement.
– Joseph Ratzinger
You can never predict in advance how things will turn our. Anyone who is extrapolating the decline of the church in academic, statistical fashion from the situation in Europe is failing to recognize the unpredictable nature of human history in general - and in particular, God's power to take the initiative by intervening, as he is always able to do.
– Joseph Ratzinger
– John Rawls
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– Man Ray
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In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Israel was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tryanny and unrest.
– Ronald Reagan
If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.
– Donna Reed
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I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.
– Tara Reid
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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
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I want Latina women to realize that you can't just consider yourself Latin when you're in America. You have to hold on to your roots. Culture is something you NEVER want to lose. I like influencing Latina women into knowing that there's a chance to rise above the racial barriers. America is beginning to realize the power of unity. The only way to do that is to unify. I think I'll be dead by the time we're all equal, though.
– Michelle Rodriguez
We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.
– Andy Rooney
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes strong than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
– Jean Rostand
– J. K. Rowling
The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.
– Jane Rule
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– John Ruskin
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called the Kingdom of Heaven had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, it will all blow over now. Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.
– George William Russell
– Harriet Rubin
– Cornelius Tacitus
America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
– Cal Thomas
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No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
– Cal Thomas
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
– Cal Thomas
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The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
– Mark Twain
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– Stephen Tobolowsky