Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
