Power Quotes

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

Sallust

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

Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

George Eliot

No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

H. L. Mencken

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

John Adams

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Pittacus

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

Jeremy Taylo

Anger without power is folly.

German Prove

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.

John Lennon

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Sheare

I regret to say that we of the F. B. I. are powerless to act in cases of oral - Genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

J. Edgar Hoove

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Edward De Bono

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.

Jean Anouilh

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow, - - He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.

Johann von Goethe

If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.

Emily Taft Douglas

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Anais Nin

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)

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Henri de Lubac

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.

Stephen Hawking

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Samuel Smiles

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

Power n The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.

Anon.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Joseph Stalin

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

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Emile Coue

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Malcolm X

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Baltasar Gracian

Character is power.

Booker T. Washington

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

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

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

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Kahlil Gibran

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963