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“You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord. Grass-roots peace work is vitally important. All who work for peace belong to a special peace fellowship — whether we work together or apart.”
Peace Pilgrim (1908–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.”
Tom Wolfe (1930–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political power.”
Tom Wolfe (1930–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dear reader, do you know the living God? Is He, in Jesus, your Father? Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds, and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.”
George Müller (1805–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mighty Jove did love us. Did? He does. There is a spell of unresisted power In wonder-working weak simplicity, Because it is not fear'd.”
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For more than 70 years, the United States convinced much of the world that .. it somehow needed the United States to save it from communist darkness. "Just buy our weapons," said Washington, "let our military and our corporations roam freely across your land, and give us veto power over who your leaders will be, and we'll protect you.”
William Blum (1933–2018) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Third Edition (2006), p. 1
“Grant me the power of saying things Too simple and too sweet for words!”
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How amiable and innocent Her pleasure in her power to charm!”
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on!”
Park Benjamin Sr. (1809–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All I can say is that women, when they govern, are much harsher than men. Much crueler. Much more bloodthirsty. I'm citing facts, not opinions. You're heartless when you have power. Think of Catherine de Medicis, Catherine of Russia, Elizabeth I of England. Not to mention Lucrezia Borgia, with her poisons and intrigues. You're schemers, you're evil. All of you.”
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Oriana Fallaci (December 30, 1973), The Mystically Divine Shah of Iran (interview), Chicago Tribune
“Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.”
William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Masque of Judgment (1900), Act III, Sc. 2.
“Bring me your children hither. … Unto this twain, man-child and womanchild, I give the passion of this element; This seed of longing, substance of this love; This power, this purity, this annihilation. Let their hands light the altar of the world. 'T is yours forever. I have brought it home!”
William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have only one global hegemonic power. It is not accumulating territory: it is trying to accumulate influence and control.”
Rowan Williams (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out. The genius of the Führer and his determination not to shun even a world war have again won victory without the use of force. The hope remains that the incredulous, the weak and the doubters have been converted and will remain that way.”
Alfred Jodl (1890–1946) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Munich Conference (29 September 1938), as cited in William Lawrence Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (1990), p. 422.
“Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.”
Albert Kesselring (1885–1960) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War, 1944-45" - by John Nichol, Tony Rennell - History - 2006.
“In the interest of the entire nation we decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves, as a party or a movement, over and above the whole nation.”
Franz von Papen (1879–1969) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Vol. 6" - Page 3 - 1946
“The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.”
Vernon Howard (1918–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.”
Vernon Howard (1918–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.”
Vernon Howard (1918–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tempt me no more, for I Have known the lightning's hour, The poet's inward pride, The certainty of power.”
Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Praise be to you, O hills, that you can breathe Into our souls the secret of your power!”
Richard Hovey (1864–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. I think they need me. I don't think it's addictive. I think, if anything, it's the opposite of addictive. You want to run away from it, but it doesn't let you go. It's doing it again.”
Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "I never asked for power" in The Guardian (15 August 2002)
“Some of the defendants say that dictatorship can be good if there is a good dictator. But I say that a man cannot stay good if he becomes a dictator. Authoritarianism is a system that destroys man's morality. If you take a saint and give him power, he will change into a Hitler or a devil.”
Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Leon Goldensohn, June 16, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“Milk, barley, wheat, cereals, butter, cheese, tomatoes, honey, dates, fruits, almonds, and sugar-candy are all Sattvic food-stuffs. They render the mind pure and calm and play a very important part in the practices of spiritual aspirants, in the mental development of the student, and in the personality- power of the leaders of mankind.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Stand not a beggar before the door of science seeking power that kills more than heals.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yoga is the science that teaches you the method of uniting the individual will with the Cosmic Will. Yoga transmutes the unregenerate nature and increases energy, vitality, vigour, and bestows longevity and a high standard of health. Try to increase the power of concentration. Japa will help you to have a one-pointed mind. (What Is Actual Yoga)”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As you think, so you become. As you think, so you develop. As is your ideal, so gradually your life will become. This is so, because there is a great transforming power in thought.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler had made the clear political request to build up for him in 5 years, that is, by the first of April 1938, armed forces which he could place in the balance as an instrument of political power.”
Erich Raeder (1876–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All wars will be settled by sea power.”
Erich Raeder (1876–1960) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Forrest Davis, "The Atlantic System: The Story of Anglo-American Control of the Seas" (1941), p. 221.
“Dismal and fearsome to view was this strong place of Carcë, most like to the embodied soul of dreadful night brooding on the waters of that sluggish river: by day a shadow in broad sunshine, the likeness of pitiless violence sitting in the place of power, darkening the desolation of the mournful fen; by night, a blackness more black than night herself.”
Eric Rücker Eddison (1882–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The aim of the ancients was the sharing of social power among the citizens of the same fatherland: this is what they called liberty. The aim of the moderns is the enjoyment of liberty in private pleasures, and they call “liberty” the guarantees accorded by institutions to these pleasures.”
Benjamin Constant (1767–1830) first seen 1819 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns" (1819)
“You're doing OK. You're always doing OK — however bad you think you are doing — this is another page of the book. But remember the responsibility you can have, or the power you can have, to make the sun shine a little brighter for the person next to you. Even if you never see them again — it will mean the world to them, what you can do.”
Ysabella Brave (born 1979) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Self Esteem" (31 May 2007)
“[A]ll food images, if they are successful, have the power to arouse appetite. They should be luscious and sexy. I have no embarrassment about the culinary come-on. But that's the limit of my erotic intent. I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.”
Nigella Lawson (born 1960) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "You Ask The Questions", The Independent (12 September 2002), p. 7
“Power to the people We don't want it We want pleasure And the TVs try to rape us And I guess that they're succeeding And we're going to these meetings But we're not doing any meeting And we're trying to be faithful, but we're Cheating, cheating, cheating”
Regina Spektor (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not against a body of uninterpreted data, radically thinned descriptions, that we must measure the cogency of our explications, but against the power of the scientific imagination to bring us into touch with the lives of strangers.”
Clifford Geertz (1926–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Within the brain's most secret cells A certain Lord Chief Justice dwells, Of sovereign power, whom, one and all, With common voice, we Reason call.”
Charles Churchill (satirist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's funny, the power of beauty, to make us forget such injustice. É estranho o poder da beleza, que nos faz esquecer tanta injustiça.”
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We smoked them down until they burned our fingertips. Then I rolled two more. In the middle of the second it began to come, the floating, the wafting away from the earth, the joy and triumph of a man over space, the extraordinary sense of power.”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do not want a new war. But we are not afraid of it if mobilisation of German power should prove to be the ultimate means of restoring German freedom.”
Gregor Strasser (1892–1934) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Germany from Defeat to Conquest, 1913-1933", Władysław Wszebór Kulski - History - (1945)
“He is such a hysteric that they need not take him seriously, and so he will not carry out his threat unfortunately. But it is all or nothing for him now. If I know him, he will make one desperate attempt to get into power. If this fails and he does not get his way, he is finished. He will burst into pieces like a frog.”
Gregor Strasser (1892–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Adolf Hitler as quoted in "Diary of a Man in Despair", Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen - History (1970) p. 95.
“The Capitalist system with its exploitation of those who are economically weak, with its robbery of the workers labour power, with its unethical way of appraising human beings by the number of things and the amount of money he possesses, instead of by their internal value and their achievements, must be replaced by a new and just economic system, in a word by German Socialism.”
Gregor Strasser (1892–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tradition & Revolution: Collected Writings of Troy Southgate, editors: Patrick Boch, Jacob Christiansen and John B. Morgan, UK, Arktos Media (2010) p. 66.
“Love is a power, a mighty principle that exists in its own right independent of any individual. Man changes, but the principle of love does not and cannot. Love does not leave men and women. Men and women leave love.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.”
Hester Thrale (1741–1821) first seen 1781 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Fanny Burney, November 12, 1781; Charlotte Barrett (ed.) Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay (1854) vol. 2, p. 82.
“Poetry is the art of using words charged with their utmost meaning. A society whose intellectual leaders lose the skill to shape, appreciate, and understand the power of language will become the slaves of those who retain it — be they politicians, preachers, copywriters, or newscasters.”
Dana Gioia (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Behold love, thy power how she despiseth: My great pain, how little she regardeth The holy oath, whereof she taketh no cure Broken she hath: and yet she bideth sure Right at her ease, and little she dreadeth.”
Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) said by 1542 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined. Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power; Thoughts that ascend, like angels beautiful, A shining Jacob's ladder of the mind.”
Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How can you close your eyes and say this has nothing to do with me? I'm not speaking about politics. Politics is a terrible thing. Everyone wants power.”
Luise Rainer (1910–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place. … [It] was the people taking power into their own hands. Now that is what you mean by democracy if you take it to the full swing.”
Donald Tsang (born 1944) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "HK's Tsang apologises for gaffe" at BBC News (13 October 2007)
“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source