Power Quotes

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles De Gaulle
Charles caleb colton - the three great apostles of practical atheism,...
Sarah bernhardt - all power in human hands is liable to be abused....
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma Gandhi
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.
John Whitehead
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
Woody Allen
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.
Mia Hamm
What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise.
William Carlos Williams
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann von Goethe
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
Horace Bushnell
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Sir Winston Churchill
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns, To A Louse
Jacob chanowski - no science is immune to the infection of politics...
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.
Germaine Gree
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.
Saville
Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
Plato
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry Kissinge
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.
Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
Jean de La Fontaine
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.
Jon Wynne Tyson
Great is truth, and all powerful.
Vulgate
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
Joseph Addison
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
J. Michael Straczynski
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.
Julie Arabi
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
William Hazlitt
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefelle