Power Quotes

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory.

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.

We have an active program. We have nuclear weapons, we are a nuclear power. We have an advanced missiles program.

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all - it will cost you dough and win you nothing.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.