Power Quotes

Bertrand russell - much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred...
Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
John randolph - the principle of liberty and equality, if coupled...
Desire creates the power.
Raymond Holliwell
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.
Adam Smith
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.
Eliza Mother Stewart
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.
John Lennon
Consciousness of our powers augments them.
Vauvenargues
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
William Carleton
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
Albert Pike
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
John Calhoun
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
Eric Hoffe
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
J. Michael Straczynski
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.
La Rochefoucauld
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
A. J. Toynbee
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Mary Howitt
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
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.
Sir William Drape
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
Randall Wallace
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.
Unknown
Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.
Scarface
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.
Pope Gregory The Great
Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Walt Whitman
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
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
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
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann von Goethe
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix