'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.

A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Any form of art is a form of power it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

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.

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.

Biology always beats will power.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

Business is in itself a power.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Character is power.

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

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Culture follows power.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Doing the right thing has power.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

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.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortune's bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

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.

Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.

I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I believe in delegating power.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

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.

I believe in the power of weakness.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

I cured with the power that came through me.

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

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.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son's school so they know I'm not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from 'The View.' Hair makes you feel a certain way, like putting a power suit on.

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

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

I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice.

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.

I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

In all our associations in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

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.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

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.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Money: power at its most liquid.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

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.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

Order is power.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Politics is not about power.

Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Power is paradoxical.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Power is the ability to get things done.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

Prayer is mans greatest power!

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.