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“You'll find my power comes from within.... and is a force to be reckoned with.”
Jim Starlin (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Naked power is seldom the answer to any problem. Surely you must know that even this group's combined might is nothing compared to the force Thanos wields. Only a richly complex and skillfully executed strategy will insure your survival. Time is short and I have such a plan.”
Jim Starlin (born 1949) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Adam Warlock to Galactus, attempting to convince him to join with the heroes allied with him in his plans to defeat Thanos, in The Infinity Gauntlet (1991), Issue 3: Preparations for War.
“God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A thought has no size in the physical sense but is vast as compared to the physical acts and objects into which it is later precipitated. The power of a thought is enormous and superior to all the successive physical acts, objects, and events that body forth its energy. A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it.”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who are we? We are the life force power of the universe.”
Jill Bolte Taylor (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have the power to chose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world.”
Jill Bolte Taylor (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peace before everything, God before anything / Love before anything, real before everything / Home before anyplace, truth before anything / Style and stay radiate, love power slay the hate”
Yasiin Bey (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(About the workplace) Tyrants who get into power make life miserable for everyone.”
Temple Grandin (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To understand the extraordinary fact of Ceausescu's monolithic power, and the otherwise incomprehensible lack of resistance to it, one must try to experience the sheer dead weight the Romanians bore day in, day out. During the twenty-four years of his reign, their thoughts were blunted and restricted by what George Orwell might have called 'Homagespeak'.”
John Sweeney (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Red Horizons is no better than Bucharest secret policeman's gossip: sordid, dully pornographic, intrusive, morally repugnant, incoherent yet endlessly fascinating. Ceausescu is seen as a power-mad, deeply dishonest paranoiac, as well as someone who cheats at chess. Elena comes of worse, if that is possible, as a sluttish, bad-tempered moron.”
John Sweeney (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One Chechen view was: 'If we had wanted to bomb Moscow, we would have blown up the Kremlin or a nuclear power station. Why should we blow up a couple of blocks of flats?'”
John Sweeney (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The deal between the Russian state and the oligarchs was pretty clear: keep your nosy beaks out of politics, out of power, and enjoy your money. But if you ask the wrong kind of questions, things will not go well for you. It was a recipe for the zombification of Russia.”
John Sweeney (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Putin said that Anna was a woman whose influence was 'extremely insignificant'. The truth was that she was extremely significant, very dangerous to his hold on power. No one else was asking the questions she was. And then her voice was silenced.”
John Sweeney (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man of limited vision is hard to bear with in any sphere in which he is invested with power, but intolerable in the army.”
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.”
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The nationalists have no political power. They have no votes and they hate votes. Votes to them are as repugnant as holy water to the devil.”
Luis Muñoz Marín (1898–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The power of memory - magic- myth - abstract beauty. I paint pictures that have never been seen before. Visions of another world. At once sensuous and intellectual.”
Stefan Szczesny (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To say that man is "made in the image of God" means that he represents a central and not a peripheral subjectivity, and consequently a subject which, emanating directly from the Divine Intellect, participates in principle in the power of the latter; man can know all that is real, hence knowable, otherwise he would not be that earthly divinity which in fact he is.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It could be said that faith is that something which makes intellectual certitude become holiness; or which is the realizatory power of certitude.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[In sacred art], true genius can develop without making innovations: it attains perfection, depth and power of expression almost imperceptibly by means of the imponderables of truth and beauty ripened in that humility without which there can be no true greatness.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man has two primary drives in early adulthood: one toward power, success, and accomplishment; the other toward love, companionship, and sex. Half of life then was out of order. To go before them was to stand up as a man and admit that I was only half a man.”
Neil Strauss (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.”
Neil Strauss (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The positive effects of globalization are inseparable from American power. … Globalization is Americanization.”
Charles A. Kupchan (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What concerns me most here are the ways in which contemporary voices considered to be leftist have abandoned the philosophical ideas that are central to any left-wing standpoint: a commitment to universalism over tribalism, a firm distinction between justice and power, and a belief in the possibility of progress.”
Susan Neiman (born 1955) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Polity (2023), p. 5
“Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.”
Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery (1998) by G. Cameron Hurst, G. Cameron Hurst, 3rd, G. Hurst I, p. 4
“The business always goes for what you do best. When critics start speaking up and they believe in something then you have the power to get blow-jobs basically, from the corporate leaders. I mean, I've found myself being blown by America's film corporations. It's nice. I cum in their fucking lens.”
River Phoenix (1970–1993) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: VPRO, (1991)
“To us power is, first of all, the ability to define phenomena, and secondly the ability to make these phenomena act in a desired manner.”
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Black Capitalism Re-analyzed I: June 5, 1971 in The Huey P. Newton Reader, p. 277
“I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.”
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The oppressor must be harassed until his doom. He must have no peace by day or by night. The slaves have always outnumbered the slavemasters. The power of the oppressor rests upon the submission of the people.”
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Defense of Self-defense" I (June 20, 1967)
“The blood, sweat, tears, and suffering of Black people are the foundations of the wealth and power of the United States of America. We were forced to build America, and if forced to, we will tear it down. The immediate result of this destruction will be suffering and bloodshed. But the end result will be the perpetual peace for all mankind.”
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Defense of Self-defense" I (June 20, 1967)
“Over the postwar years, we have granted to the elite and secret police within our system vast new powers over the lives and liberties of the people. At the request of the trusted and respected heads of those forces, and their appeal to the necessities of national security, we have exempted those grants of power from due accounting and strict surveillance.”
Hale Boggs (1914–1972) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech before Congress (April 22, 1971)
“Is it with us a compensatory fact that, being more stupid in the mass, we shoot up higher, when we do shoot up, in dazzling concentrations of intellectual power and so produce what we describe as "genius"? For "genius" is with us an individual thing. Whereas all Jews are little geniuses.”
Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Jews: Are They Human? (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1939), p. 68.
“Sex was really all bluff — power the thing.”
Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[D]oes not all power that is real exact that it shall be visible!”
Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.”
Patch Adams (born 1945) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Entrevista com o médico americano P. Adams" in Roda Viva - Entrevista (13 November 2007)
“With white tails smoking free, Long streaming manes, and arching necks, they show Their kinship to their sisters of the sea – And forward hurl their thunderbolts of snow. Still out of hardships bred, Spirits of power and beauty and delight Have ever on such frugal pastures fed And loved to course with tempests through the night.”
Roy Campbell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Furthermore, the monad produces itself and is produced from itself, since it is self-sufficient and has no power set over it and is everlasting; and it is evidently the cause of permanence, just as God is thought to be in the case of actual physical things, and to be the preserver and maintainer of natures.”
Iamblichus (245–325) said by 325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The development of air power in its broadest sense, and including the development of all means of combating missiles that travel through the air, whether fired or dropped, is the first essential to our survival in war.”
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873–1956) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Given by Trenchard in 1946. As listed on Great Aviation Quotes
“We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.”
M. H. Abrams (1912–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no power in the world, not that of any religion’s god or mystery, that can change people from being what they are. The world’s history – what little we have recorded of it – proves that beyond a doubt.”
Charles de Lint (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name.”
William Winter (author) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Queen's Domain", The Queen's Domain, and other Poems (1858).
“There's no solution except to break the power of Chiang Kai-shek by capturing Nanking. That is what I must do.”
Iwane Matsui (1878–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Tennou no guntai to Nankin jiken" by Yoshida Hiroshi - 1998 Aoki shoten, page 71.
“The China Incident [of 1937 onwards] has resulted in massive loss of life through the mutual killing of neighboring friends. This is the greatest tragedy of the last one thousand years. Nevertheless this is a holy war to save the peoples of East Asia.... Invoking the power of Avalokitesvara, I pray for the bright future of East Asia.”
Iwane Matsui (1878–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Zen War Stories" - Page 186 - by Daizen Victoria - History - 2003.
“There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.”
John S. Hall (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians,”
Bernard Membe (1953–2023) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: during the annual International Day of solidarity with the Palestinian people; quoted in Tanzania touts Middle East peace Tha Daily News (2010=11-30)
“The worst thing about all this staining power of the world is the way in which we come to think of it as inevitable. ... It is not true. ... Social life is lighted up with the lustre of the white, unstained robes of many a pure man or woman who walks through its very midst.”
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The conception of life as constructive rather than antagonistic effort finds beautiful illustration in every approach that we make toward true civilization. You measure the quality and the value of the civilization of individuals or peoples, not by the houses which they live in or the clothes which they wear, but by the width and power of their sympathy.”
Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea; He wields a mighty scepter O'er lesser powers than he; But a mighty power and stronger, Man from his throne hath hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.”
William Ross Wallace (1819–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What rules the World? (also known by The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World) reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919).
“Geologists discover... an almost complete difference to exist between the species or stamp of life, of one epoch from that of every other. We are therefore led to admit, either of a repeated miraculous creation; or of a power of change, under a change of circumstances, to belong to living organised matter, or rather to the congeries of inferior life, which appears to form superior.”
Patrick Matthew (1790–1874) said by 1874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If ever Christianity appears in its power, it is when it erects its trophies upon the tomb; when it takes up its votaries where the world leaves them; and fills the breast with immortal hope in dying moments.”
Robert Hall (1764–1831) said by 1831 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source