The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media.

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.