Quotes about Power
Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.
- Malcolm X
I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.
- Malcolm X
It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.
- Marcus Aurelius
Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.
- Marianne Williamson
The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.
- Marianne Williamson
Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.
- Marianne Williamson
A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.
- Martin Luther
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?
- Max Lucado
Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
- Michael Ignatieff