Power Quotes

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.

Kahlil Gibran

Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.

Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right

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

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Nido Qubein

Character is power.

Booker T. Washington

Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.

Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Nelson Rockefelle

Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Lord Tennyson

Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.

Alexander Hamilton

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle, Physics

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Jeremy Taylo

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.

Ken Keyes

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

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.

Adam Smith

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 - 82

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Mary Howitt

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Edwin Whipple

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

So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Desire creates the power.

Raymond Holliwell

Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.

James Russell Lowell

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

Ronal Reagan, 20 March 1981

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988

Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle

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 Aurelius Antoninus

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.

Giuseppe Mazzini

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long - Term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Maurice Godelie