All Quotes

Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally.
‐‐ Geoffrey Canada

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
‐‐ Mathieu Kerekou

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
‐‐ Sydney Smith

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
‐‐ Anzia Yezierska

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
‐‐ Jimmy Dean

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
‐‐ Denis Diderot

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
‐‐ Stendhal

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
‐‐ John Adams

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
‐‐ John Adams

Power and beauty come from a very deep place.
‐‐ Brooke Burke

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
‐‐ George A. Smith

Power and speed be hands and feet.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
‐‐ Hannah Arendt

Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
‐‐ Ratan Tata

Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.
‐‐ John McLaughlin

Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.
‐‐ Alexandra Paul

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
‐‐ Tariq Ali

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
‐‐ Frederick Douglass

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
‐‐ J. William Fulbright

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
‐‐ Edward Brooke

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
‐‐ Olive Schreiner

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
‐‐ John Steinbeck

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
‐‐ Malcolm X

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
‐‐ Jill Scott

Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.
‐‐ Barbara Kruger

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
‐‐ Dan Webster

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

Power has no limits.
‐‐ Tiberius

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
‐‐ Ralph Nader

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
‐‐ Zygmunt Bauman

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
‐‐ Theodore White

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
‐‐ Malcolm X

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
‐‐ James F. Byrnes

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

Power is always a corrupting influence.
‐‐ Charles Dance

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
‐‐ Edward Abbey

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.
‐‐ Mike Pence

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
‐‐ Richard J. Daley

Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.
‐‐ Donna Edwards

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
‐‐ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
‐‐ Samuel Adams