Power Quotes

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Mao Tse - Tung

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine

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

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Shirley MacLaine

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

Ronal Reagan, 20 March 1981

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

William Henry Harrison

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

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

Willa Sibert Cathe

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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

A King as such is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

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

The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.

Dennis Kucinich

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

Upham

This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.

Agathon

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Eric Sevareid

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

Liz Smith

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

Sallust

The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory

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

Either you think - - Or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F Scott

Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

Black Elk

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

Cornelius Tacitus

My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me.

Egyptian Book of the Dead

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Thucyclides

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon? laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution? these can lift at a colossal humbug? push it a little? weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)

This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Sylvia Ashton - Warne

Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.

Spider - Man

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation? s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffe

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

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