Power Quotes

A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

Albert Pike

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Roger Sta

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.

Epictetus

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - Or to make it the last.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Mao Tse - Tung

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Orison Swett Marden

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.

Geoffrey F. Abert

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Plato

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Vine Deloria

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 27, 2003

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.

Proverbs 3: 27

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Gladstone

No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.

Anthony Brandt

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Epictetus

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.

Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

John F. Kennedy

Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined.

Blessing Irish

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Seneca

Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farra

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

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.

Herbert Clark Hoove

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry George

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinge

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Rene Descartes