And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
For knowledge, too, is itself power.
This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
Stupid to the power of stupid.
Television has tremendous power over our lives.
In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.
Words have no power when someone isn't listening to you anymore
An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.
Education is power. It is just like a light in complete darkness.
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.
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.
The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.
Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.