961 private quotes tagged power

“To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.”— Norman Thomas

“I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.”— Fernando Flores

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”— Jimi Hendrix

“There is no limit to the power of loving.”— John Morton

“Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.”— Wole Soyinka

“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”— Theodor Adorno

“I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.”— Theodore Dreiser

“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.”— Milan Kundera

“Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.”— Muqtada al Sadr

“The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.”— John Ruskin

“There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.”— Booker T. Washington

“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”— William Wordsworth

“My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.”— Kenny Loggins

“People demand freedom only when they have no power.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.”— John Mayer

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”— Leo Buscaglia

“In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.”— Rick Warren

“In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.”— Jean Baudrillard

“Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.”— Cher

“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.”— Malcolm X

“Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.”— Dee Dee Myers

“There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.”— Orison Swett Marden

“Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.”— Edward Thorndike

“I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.”— Zoe Saldana

“Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.”— William J. Clinton