Power Quotes

Victor hugo - nothing else in the world... not all the...
Plutarch - to make no mistakes is not in the power of man;...
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
Kahlil gibran - nor shall derision prove powerful against those...
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
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
Henry George
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
Albert Einstein
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert
To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
Tryon Edwards
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.
Jon Wynne Tyson
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
J. Martin Kohe
A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles... an amateur promoter, a glad - Hander, embryo Rotarian, caf - Society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.
Harold Taylo
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
G. C. Lichtenberg
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
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.
Paul Weyrich
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.
William Adams
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.
Paul Aubuchon
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Author Unknown
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
Edwin Teale
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns, Poem "To a Louse" - Verse 8
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Euripides, 438 B. C.
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
Thomas Hobbes
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
General George Catlett Marshall
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
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca