Power Quotes

William adams - men moving only in an official circle are apt to...
Proverbs 3: 27 - do not withhold good from those to whom it is...
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin
Faith popcorn, the popcorn report, 1991 - the trouble in corporate america is that too many...
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James F. Byrnes
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Decto
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fonda
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.
Orison Swett Marden
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.
Ovid
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.
Charles Robert Darwin
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.
G. M. Trevelyan
Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great1. Conviction of the powers of goodness. 2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion. 3. Helping all who are trying to be and do good.
Swami Vivekananda
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
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
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
Ronal Reagan, 20 March 1981
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse - Tung
Man has responsibility, not power.
Tuscarora prove
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
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.
George Washington
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
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it? s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brin, on power and corruption
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
Lord Acton
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
J. Martin Kohe
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar Gracian
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Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.
John D. Rockefelle
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
Consciousness of our powers augments them.
Vauvenargues
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
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin
Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.
Basil King