Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

I am one who believes in the power of the people. I am inspired when I see people hit the streets, who challenge their elected officials, and are willing to stand up and fight. I encourage it.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

Watch a child play, and you will see real power. They are fearless.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.

We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

India is a proud and sovereign country. We do not take any decisions under pressure from the U.S. or any other power.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

I'm keeping my power to myself and my glow. I'm not giving anybody my glow anymore.

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

My morning rituals are typical. I wake up yearning for a few extra moments of rest. I express gratitude to a higher power for the breath in my body and the blessings in my life. I shower. I dress. I eat breakfast. I exchange laughter and words with my beloveds, embracing each other as we say our daily goodbyes.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Let me make one thing clear. I have never considered mere survival in power as any achievement, just as I have never seen coming to power as an achievement in itself.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food!

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

The power of Playboy is its appeal around the world.

There's a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain.

With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.

I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won't feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.