People tend to rally around power.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.
Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.
Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.
Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. . . they will only grow louder and more dissonant. . . . . . . . . . . We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but don’t feel powerless. White people don’t feel oppressed, but feel powerless. Deconstruct that disempowerment. Part of the mythology that they’ve been teaching you is that you have no power. Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.
The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.
Pain is the biggest power of love.
A good intention clothes itself with power.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
How sweetly he came to her, she thought. Even with his bulk and power, he came to her. . . sweetly.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
