Power Quotes - Page 12

This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English - it is a problem for the Department of Justice. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction.

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top".

I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger that has been apprehended.

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.

I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act that can be met with hostility, exclusion, and violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, and community. I hope that my being real with you will help empower you to step into who you are and encourage you to share yourself with those around you.

Perhaps one of the most powerful keys to determining our experience of the months ahead comes from a shift in thinking that invites us beyond asking, 'What can I get from the world that exists,' to asking, 'What can I offer to the world that is awakening?' The way we answer this question as individuals becomes our collective answer to what comes next.

When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.

You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.