Power quotes

“- J'Onn: Where did you get this power?
- Sybok: The power was within you.
- J'Onn: I feel... as if a weight has been lifted from my heart. How can I repay you for this miracle?
- Spock: Join my quest.”
Rex Holman - J'onn
Laurence Luckinbill - Sybok

“Power wears out those who do not have it.”

Franco Citti - Calo

“They can't impeach me for bombing Cambodia. The president can bomb anybody he likes.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“Not every superhero has powers. You can be super without them.”

Jason Lee - Buddy Pine

“I have to tell you, I have some real problems with this whole thing despite how much we need it. I'm concerned that too much power will end up in the hands of too few. It's always in somebody's best interest to promote enemies real or imagined.”

Robert De Niro - Bill Sullivan

“- Princess Leia: You have a power I don't understand and could never have.
- Luke: You're wrong, Leia. You have that power too. In time you'll learn to use it as I have. The Force runs strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. And... my sister has it. Yes. It's you, Leia.
- Princess Leia: I know. Somehow, I've always known.”
Carrie Fisher - Princess Leia
Mark Hamill - Luke Skywalker

“- Paul Ruth: I want you to access the Ripe program. I do not have ConSec computer clearance.
- Cameron Vale: Neither do I.
- Paul Ruth: But you do have a nervous system. And so does a computer. And you can scan a computer, as you would another human being.”
Patrick McGoohan - Dr. Paul Ruth
Stephen Lack - Cameron Vale

“You always relied on the kindness of powerful men, didn't you?”

Joyce Lower - Psychiatrist

“I'm filled with power! You might think I'm impotent prisoner, handcuffed and shackled, locked in a eight by seven cell each night and day, but I'm filled with strength that reaches way beyond these bars, sir! I can crush anyone I want to just as these hands dialing a telephone! There's no one beyond my reach! You hear me, no one!”

Ed Harris - Blair Sullivan

“- Jennings: Dr. Meadows, just for the record, I don't agree with any of this. Those people's lives are at stake.
- Dr. Meddows: Don't you think I know that? This isn't one of you text-book exercises, Mr. Jennings. This is an experiment in biological warfare, or hadn't you noticed? That organism is potentially the greatest breakthrough in weapons...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Axelrod - Jennings
Joe Seneca - Dr. Meddows

“Wipe that shit off your face! You think that your makeup and black clothes give you power... but you're just a scared, cowardly, little girl underneath all that.”

Lanny Flaherty - Sheriff Cravens

“One must never underestimate the healing power of hatred.”
Sir John Hurt - Montrose

“I've always wanted power. Now I have an unlimited supply.”
Julian McMahon - Victor Von Doom

“- U.S. Bates: Take your pants down
- Mr. Morehouse: Sir?
- U.S. Bates: Take your pants down.
[Morehouse pulls his pants down]
- U.S. Bates: That's power.”
Jackie Gleason - U.S. Bates
Ned Beatty - Mr. Morehouse

“The supers are not gone. You're still here. You can still do great things. Or you can listen to police scanners. Your choice.”

Elizabeth Peña - Mirage

“Absolute power corrupts. Better to be powerless.”

Alberta Watson - Hansel's Mom

- James Bond: It doesn't matter a damn to you, I suppose, that thousands of innocent people will be killed in that "accident" of yours?
- Orlov: Better than letting a handful of old men in Moscow bargain away our advantage in disarmament talks!

Sir Roger Moore - James Bond
Steven Berkoff - Orlov

"All Power to the People"? They had it once. It was called the Stone Age.
Jack Warden - Nelson Longhurst

“Funny, the damage a silly little book can do, especially in the hands of a silly little girl.”
Christian Coulson - Tom Riddle

“My power rises now. Five days are all I need, then you and all your kind will be destroyed. Merry Christmas, Will.”
Christopher Eccleston - The Rider

“Vengeance isn't power. Anyone can take a life. But to give life, that's true power.”
George Clooney - Batman

“- McComb: I'm an ambitious Harvard-educated visionary who deserves to be the most powerful man in the world and you... you're a fucking idiot who never figured out that the only way to make anything of himself with all that fancy kicking was on Broadway.
- Walker: Thanks for clearing that up.”
Ron Silverin - McComb
Jean-Claude Van Damme - Walker

“I do not need you to tell me what is or is not okay. In this court room, I am the one who decides what is or is not okay. Okay?”
R. Lee Ermey - Judge Clawson

“- Sunny von Bülow: Well, just because she had all the money before I had all the money does not mean she is my lord and master.
- Claus von Bülow: Of course not. I am your lord and master. Just kidding.”
Glenn Close - Sunny von Bülow
Jeremy Irons - Claus von Bülow

“Since the beginning of time, we have been the guardians and the healers of the forest. We have too long forgotten the magic powers of nature. The time has come to call on them again. Remember: all the magic of creation exists within a single tiny seed.”
Grace Zabriskie - Magi Lune