I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.

We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

Flags are about proclaiming power... that visibility is key to our success and to our justice.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the very center of the federal city. The White House and the Supreme Court are set about us, satellites to the supreme power of the people expressed in the legislative authority of Congress.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

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.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

There's a power in empathy.

Too much power in any institution tends to stifle innovation.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

People don't even realize the power the mind has over the body in the way you perceive things. Change your thoughts, change your reality. Words are powerful - every thought and every word we think has an effect on the body.

For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Never underestimate the power of confidence. If you believe you're the dopest thing walking, you might convince people of the same just because you're so headstrong about it as a fact.

Bodybuilding saved my life because I overcame the nerd stage. I got picked on. I was fascinated with power, and then I decided to take that direction because I knew that would make me feel good about myself.

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.

After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.