power quotes

“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube.”

— Erno Rubik

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. ”

— George Washington Bush

“The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest. ”

— George Washington Bush

“The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. ”

— George Washington Bush

“The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. ”

— Julius Caesar

“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. ”

— Julius Caesar

“One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again. ”

— Jim Carrey

“'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. ”

— Johnny Depp

“I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come. ”

— Bob Dylan

“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. ”

— Bob Dylan

“It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence . . .”

— Ella Baker

“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”

— Helen Keller

“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”

— Muhammad Ali

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

— Jim Morrison

“If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.”

— Edward Hopper

“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.”

— William James