Power Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old power quotes, power sayings, and power proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Power is claimed that there cannot be any commonly accepted or even preferred meaning so long as people differ on normative issues as they are likely to do indefinitely, if not forever. Dennis Hume Wrong
Power therefore obviously relational, postulating something that acts on its environment and brings about some change in it. Dennis Hume Wrong
Power is of universal scope, applying to the physical world in general, including the human actions within it. Power is of universal scope, applying to the physical world in general, including the human actions within it. Dennis Hume Wrong
Power as the capacity to produce effects may be imputed to the agency as a dispositional property even when the capacity is not manifest in action. Dennis Hume Wrong
Power resembles and includes physical force or energy, for example the explosive power seen as residing in a bomb. Dennis Hume Wrong
Power as a capacity stating a potential relation to entities in its environment is no less as relational term when it is not actually realized in overt action. Dennis Hume Wrong
The difference between having and exercising power, a version of the actual/potential distinction is thought to be obscured by the absence of a verb form, a problem that does not arise with influence or control. Dennis Hume Wrong
A power relation always implies that the person subject to it does something he or she would not otherwise have done, but it need not be something that is or is perceived as against his or her wishes or interests. Dennis Hume Wrong
Power penetrates the very core of human consciousness. It is implicated in anything and everything that can be said, which makes everything politics points to silences in the text that are held to reveal a presence confirmed by its very absence. Dennis Hume Wrong
The power that treats everything as an expression of power follows essentially from the conflation of the generic notion of power to with power over, which is social relation in which some persons possess and exercise power over others. Dennis Hume Wrong
Power to gratify their desires or realize their goals is to say no more than that they have desires and goals, that, in effect, they want to get what they want. Dennis Hume Wrong
Power is often defined as a capacity to control or influence others. Dennis Hume Wrong
Power may be imputed to an actor when the probability of his intending to achieve and effectively achieving control over another actor is rated high, even though he may not have previously exercised such control. Dennis Hume Wrong
Power is sometimes said to be potential rather than actua, to be possessed without being exercised, when others carry out the wishes or intentions of the power holder without his ever actually having issued a command to them or even having interacted with them at all to communicate his aims. Dennis Hume Wrong
Power itself is a cultural construct. The modes of expression of physical force and violence are culturally shaped, while force and violence in turn become cultural symbols, as powerful in their nonexecution as in their doing. Nicholas B. Dirks
Power cannot somehow be stripped away from social relations or discursive forms to expose the essence at the core, and the utopian prospect of eliding the relations of power in the politics of resistance can only be illusory. Nicholas B. Dirks
One who exerts power or produces an effect; efficient cause, a natural force acting on matter, one who does the actual work. Nicholas B. Dirks
Power is undergoing fragmentation, expansion, and reconstruction, so are issues of power, domination, and authority. Geoff Eley
Power therefore invites analyses of the multiple ways in which power is deployed, engaging the myriad points of resistance present everywhere in the power network. Geoff Eley
Power has altered meaning as a result of changing language game. Mark Haugaard
By definition, power entails fixing responsibility. This obvious inconsistency is a consequence of using power as a social theory concept in the first instance while, in the second usage, considering power within the language game of analytical normative political theory. Mark Haugaard
Power is merely a term for a causal relation involving human beings, power-terms should simultaneously be dispensed with. Mark Haugaard
Power is used to interpret situations in which there is the possibility that some event will intervene to change the order of other events. Mark Haugaard
Power is the energy from which action arises. Peggy L. Chinn
Power is the capacity to impose one's will on others, accompanied by a willingness to apply negative sanctions against those who oppose that will. Peggy L. Chinn
Power is radical. It involves seeing power not as a property we own, not as something we exert over others, but as a verb, a process we participate in. This is a huge evolutionary shift. Joanna Rogers Macy
The challenge for us in developing our personal power is our willingness to recognize that power is within us and in our courageous choice to forgive and release anything that prevents this power from fully manifesting. The challenge for us in developing our personal power is our willingness to recognize that power is within us and in our courageous choice to forgive and release anything that prevents this power from fully manifesting. Diane Mariechild
Power in and of itself is neutral. We must take responsibility for our own actions and choose to know our own intent and the intent of any group before we simply follow a plan of action. Peggy L. Chinn
Power over demands that we do things we don't choose to do. Peggy L. Chinn
Power of presence means we choose carefully and understand our intentions. Grace R. Rowan