The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
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.
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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.
The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.
If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.
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.
And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.
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.
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.
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
