Quotes about Power
I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.
— Mark Batterson
To use infinite agency to close a gap is to rob it of its infinite character.
— Rowan Williams
sustainable' justice ââ'¬Ã¢â‚¬œ that is, a corporate habit of relation that allows a community to believe that the security of its members does not depend entirely on contingent relations of power at any given moment.
— Rowan Williams
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
— Soren Kierkegaard
It seems that some women love to be exploited. when they are not exploited, they exploit the man.
— Malcolm X
Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, in fact wants this too.
— Malcolm X
Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power, anxieties are created.
— Malcolm X
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?
— Malcolm X
The F.B.I. and the C.I.A. and the I.R.S. all combined can't turn up a thing I got, beyond a car to drive and a seven-room house to live in.
— Malcolm X
Shorty felt about the war the same way I and most ghetto Negroes did: Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight.
— Malcolm X
We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, my brothers and sisters—Plymouth Rock landed on us!
— Malcolm X