Power Quotes - Page 9

• Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Tyrants, Abuse, Dangerous

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.2377, Delphi Classics

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• God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

  Ray Stedman

  Love, God, Christian

  Ray C. Stedman (2011). “Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity”, p.106, Discovery House

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• Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Political, Needs, Done

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• To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

  Marshall Berman

  Adventure, Joy, Growth

  Marshall Berman (1983). “All that is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity”, p.15, Verso

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• Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

  Farley Mowat

  Government, Political, Canada

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• I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Beautiful, Powerful, Thinking

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• The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.

  Nahum Goldmann

  Uganda, Europe, Sea

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• This Sacrament really contains You, O my God, You whom the Angels adore, in whose presence the Spirits and mighty Powers tremble. Oh! if we could only see You clearly as they do, with what reverence would we approach this Sacrament, with what humility would we receive You.

  Angela of Foligno

  God, Humility, Angel

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• Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Strong, Rights, Security Systems

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• The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

  Loretta Lynch

  Freedom, Responsibility, Rights

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• Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.

  N. T. Wright

  Death, Christian, Hope

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• Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.

  Carl Menger

  Money, Independent, Government

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• Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Technology, Political, Progress

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, Education, War

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.12, Templeton Foundation Press

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• The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

  David Harvey

  Change, Freedom, Exercise

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.

  Loraine Boettner

  Love, Faith, God

  Loraine Boettner (2017). “The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]”, p.44, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• 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.

  Barney Frank

  Perspective, Decision, Engagement

  "The Sayings of Chairman Barney" by Richard Reeves, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 2, 2011.

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• In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Order, Lust For Power

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

  George A. Smith

  Men, Trifles, Position

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• To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

  George MacDonald

  Contentment, Want, Able

  George MacDonald (1884). “Donal Grant”, p.3, CCEL

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• Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

  William Wordsworth

  Getting High, Waste, Spending

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 1 (1807)

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• It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

  Anthony Eden

  Office, Able, Common

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1965). “The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon”

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• There's no such thing as too much power!

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Motivational, Strength, Climbing

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• Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

  Noah Webster

  Weakness, Always Wrong, Insolent

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• Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Greatest Fear, Punishment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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