Power Quotes
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.Unknown
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.Akhenaton
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.Robert Burns, To A Louse
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.Carl Jung
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.Erich Fromm
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
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.Cornelius Tacitus
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.Gahan Wilson
Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.Ralph Waldo Trine
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.Eric Hoffe
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
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
Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.Margaret Thatche
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - If he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.John Stuart Mill
Desire creates the power.Raymond Holliwell
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
Austin Powers Yeah, baby, yeah.Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.Ayn Rand
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
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.David Brinkley
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.Agathon
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
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
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.James Madison
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle, Physics
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
The conscience of a people is their power.John Dryden
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.Lyman Bryson
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.John Whitehead
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.David Seabury
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.Russell Bake
