Quotes of: Most-powerful Keyword

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.

Communication Power

Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power

Arjun: Without a Doubt

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.

Two Boys Kissing

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Francis Bacon

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

John Boehner

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

David Brinkley

There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Ronald Reagan

The asymmetry of power that cuteness revolves around is another compelling reminder of how aesthetic categories register social conflict. There can be no experience of any person or object as cute that does not somehow call up the subject’s sense o...

Sianne Ngai

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.

The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?...I mean, men give her [a queen] power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she'...

Ursula K. Le Guin

The power of the crocodile is in the water.

Bantu

When you have no real power, go public -- really public. The public is where the real power is.

A Fighting Chance

When you have no real power, go public—really public. The public is where the real power is.

A Fighting Chance

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

The Beauty Myth

But remember that forgiveness, too, is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

The Handmaid's Tale

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

The Handmaid's Tale