Power Quotes
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 power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.Johnson
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.Rene Descartes
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.Mary Cholmondeley
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.William Hazlitt
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead? a dead parent, for example? can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.Sylvia Ashton - Warne
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.Mahatma Gandhi
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.George Bernard Shaw
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.Bertrand Russell
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.William Hazlitt
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
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.Erich Fromm
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
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
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
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981 - 1987
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.Leo Buscaglia
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.Plato
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.Tyron Edwards
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.Tryon Edwards
Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.James Russell Lowell
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.Dr. Robert Schulle
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.Clive James
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.Theodore Roosevelt
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.Jiddu Krishnamurti
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.Michael Faraday
With great power comes great responsibility.Stan Lee, Spider - Man comic
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.Origen
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.Ludwig Boerne
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.Niccolo Machiavelli
