3730 Power Quotes for You to Enjoy

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. Johan Huizinga

Power Judgment Pictorial Advertising Enables His Modern Average Exploit Suggestion

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light. Johannes P. Muller

Light Opportunity Space Nervous Power Action Immense Propagation Case Shall Through Attain Never Velocity Measuring Comparing

It's funny, the power of music. I was watching 'Dracula,' the 1931 version with Bela Lugosi, and the only music you hear is at the very beginning of the credits. There's not one other piece of music; it's all silent. It's unbelievable, and it's very effective, too. John 5

Funny Music You Power Beginning Too Other Silent Unbelievable Only Piece Hear Version Effective Very Credits Dracula Watching

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over. John Avlon

Responsibility Power First Believe Insane Out Has-Been Obama Administration Obama Administration No Question Take Part Over Parties Ideologues Equally Without Governing Been Years Question Being Crazier Them Far Ground Activists

The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions. John Barrasso

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There are billions of barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf. There is even more in Alaska. There is enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years. The Democrats say all this American energy is off limits. John Barrasso

Alone Power Energy Enough Hundred Hundred Years Say Outer More Democrats Shelf Limits Continental West Years Off Rocky Mountain America American Oil Next Barrels Billions Even Alaska

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check. John Bates Clark

I'm quite certain the Windows 8 team is preparing to market IE 10 - and by extension, Windows 8 - as the safe, privacy-enhancing choice, capitalizing on Google's many government woes and consumers' overall unease with the search giant's power. John Battelle

Government Power Google Market Giant Windows Consumers Overall Safe Woes Unease Quite Choice Certain Team Many Search Preparing Extension

The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism. John Berger

Hope Capitalism Culture Power Nothing Society Other Pleasure Recognises Kind Except Longer Envisaged Industrial Within Any Acquire Satisfaction

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion. John Boyd Orr

Great Religion Power Increase State Approval Possible Has-Been Empires Powers Force Arms Policy Territory Always Been Get

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. John C. Calhoun

To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of each to judge for itself of the extent of the power allotted to its share, and to protect itself in its exercise, is what, in reality, is meant by a division of power. John C. Calhoun

Reality Judge Power Indispensable Share Division Protect Make Another Exercise Itself Effectual Veto Form Meant Each Right Extent

I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ours. I saw that it was impossible she could stand as an independent power between us and Mexico without becoming the scene of intrigue of foreign powers, alike destructive of the peace and security of both Texas and ourselves. John C. Calhoun

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I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous! John C. Calhoun

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The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure. John Caudwell

Failure You Natural Win Fear Losing Will Power Think Incredible Worried Top Say Would Athlete Bet About Having Force Got Were Truthful Any Quite Should Businessman

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. John Cheever

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin. John Chrysostom

Men Power Thinking Sin May Avoid

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. John Dalberg-Acton

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. John Dalberg-Acton

Freedom Liberty Power Ought Like Doing Right

In order for a president to be transformational, the old order has to fall as the orthodoxies that kept it in power exhaust themselves. John Dickerson

Old Power Fall President Exhaust Order Themselves Kept

The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped. John Doolittle

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