Quotes of: Powerful-people Keyword

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Julian Casablancas

People abusing their power makes me see red.

Neil Jackson

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Patti Smith

Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.

Madonna Ciccone

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.

Alexis Arguello

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is alw...

Robert Caro

Where right has no power -- there power likes to be.

Croatian

A powerful friend becomes a powerful enemy.

Ethiopian

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Walter Annenberg

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety, good, and happiness of the people... There is no king or queen bee distinguished from all the others by size or figure or...

John Adams

I have been a print reporter my whole career. It's all I ever wanted to be. I specialize in political profiles. I have probably profiled hundreds of people over the years, people in very powerful positions. People don't always like what I write, but ...

Mark Leibovich

There is no limit of degradation to which power cannot bring anyone even with the loftiest principles. We would hope that being unprepared for power, they would be ineffective. Their task is not "seize power" (those who use this term show that they s...

Anarchism: Arguments For and Against

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

Thomas S. Monson

The word of a powerful man is the truth.

Bambara

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

Allegiant

Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.

Stella Young

People who avoid their fears also avoid their power.

Timothy Roderick

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

Edward James Olmos

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

Cat Stevens

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Pierre Omidyar