The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. – Herodotus
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. – Rush Limbaugh
Words derive their power from the original word. – Meister Eckhart
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. – Walter Scott
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. – Vladimir Lenin
There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. – Doris Humphrey
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. – William Penn
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. – Tom Stoppard
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. – Lord Acton
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. – Saint Teresa of Avila
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. – Jennifer Aniston
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. – Christopher Hitchens
Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. – Michel Foucault
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. – Barbara Kruger
The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. – Ursula K. Le Guin
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. – Vaclav Havel
I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that. – Rick Warren
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. – Gloria Steinem
