Quotes on Power

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

When it comes to our collective health, how we deal with the multiple crises and problems around us also depends on the power of context - in other words, our resilience.

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.

Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists.

We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon.

You have something unique that no one else has - your life experience. That's the power of you.

Women can achieve power and purpose in whatever profession they pursue, position they hold or whether they are caring for their children full time.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Journalism has a check-and-balance effect to those in power, and those in power submitted themselves to it.

You can be big, and you can be successful, but you cannot abuse your power to stop others from challenging you from being the next big thing in five or ten years.