3 December 2020 Dan Brown Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
3 December 2020 Maria Montessori We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe,’ but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
3 December 2020 Oliver Stone Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton ‘Smart power’ is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict – not just send our military in.
3 December 2020 Peter Singer In the sense that you’re not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn’t isn’t unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.
3 December 2020 Stanley Kubrick The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
3 December 2020 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
3 December 2020 Pat Robertson It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say ‘this is one nation under God.’
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
3 December 2020 Eric Cantona What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.
3 December 2020 Thomas Sowell Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
3 December 2020 Epictetus Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
3 December 2020 Louisa May Alcott You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
3 December 2020 Twyla Tharp In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it’s simply because I wasn’t that committed to geometry.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.
3 December 2020 Richard Bach You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
