Power Quotes
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.Carl Jung
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.Edward De Bono
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.Benjamin Disraeli
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.Hannah Arendt
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.Anais Nin
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.G. C. Lichtenberg
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.Eric Amble
Never underestimate the power of passion.Eve Sawye
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.Charles Fillmore
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.Eric Hoffe
There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.Angel Blessing
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.Benjamin Disraeli
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 sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.Euripides
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.John Steinbeck
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow, - - He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.Johann von Goethe
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.Lewis Mumford
Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon? laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution? these can lift at a colossal humbug? push it a little? weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.Harry S Truman
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.Ernest Hemingway
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.Toni Morrison, American writer (1931 -)
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.Steve Droke
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.Lyndon B. Johnson
Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.Black Elk
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.General George Catlett Marshall
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.William Henry Harrison
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.Horace Bushnell
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.Hermann Hesse
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.George Orwell, 1984
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.Mark Twain
