Famous Quotes About power

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.