Quotes about Power

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

The power of self-interest is still present in the believer

But the service Jesus rendered for us in his life, death, and resurrection is not just for forgiveness of sins or a future in heaven; it is also for the daily power to change in the present. We are not just promised life after death, but life before death! You can remember this as you face the realities of life in a broken world.

Words can be powerful or they can be cheap. What makes words powerful is the action that flows from them. Theology also can be powerful or cheap. What makes right thinking about God powerful is the life that emerges daily from that theology.

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.

Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.

Mere words.. Was there anything so real as words?

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the very outset of my life freedom, and freedom is everything.