Power Quotes

Lyndon b. johnson - we have the opportunity to move not only toward...
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 27, 2003
Aristotle - those who have the command of the arms in a...
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.
Mary Manin Morrissey
What power has law where only money rules.
Gaius Petronius
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
Aldous Huxley
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.
Christine Lane
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
The death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
The greatest power is often simple patience.
E. Joseph Crossman
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Steve Droke
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
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar Gracian
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero
He who fears something gives it power over him.
Moorish Prove
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
Lincoln Steffens
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton, 1887
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
Thomas Bailey
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James F. Byrnes
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
Absolute power is the power to destroy.
Frank Herbert, Dune
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
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
Michael Bakunin, God and State
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Edmund Burke
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.
Scarface
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Ernst Steinbeck
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Pittacus