Power Quotes

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.

B. F. Skinne

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Liz Smith

All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

Sarah Bernhardt

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 27, 2003

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

James Russell Lowell

Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.

Sidney Madwed

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

Robert Henri

Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.

Caterina Rando

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

Reinhold Niebuh

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

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinge

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Unknown

I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power.

David McCord

The conscience of a people is their power.

John Dryden

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

Adam Smith

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Mark Twain

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.

Primo Levi

Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.

Spider - Man

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. On President Ronald Reagan.

Muammar Qaddafi

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

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Clement Stone

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

Brenda Ueland

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

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

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

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

H. G. Wells

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Miguel de Cervantes

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown