Quotes on Power

I think one of the most important facts of basic income would be that it's not only a redistribution of income, but also of power. So the cleaners and bin men would have a lot more bargaining power.

Prudence dictates that there should be a balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

We intend to try by every means in our power to seize the country and create a government without bloodshed.

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Don't believe the hype; don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.

I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

I find with records, they become what they're going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own. Part of making records is to honor that and not try to force it.

No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.