Power Quotes
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
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
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.Mark Twain
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
Knowledge is power.Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.Mary Howitt
There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.Angel Blessing
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.Benjamin Franklin
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.Edwin Teale
Power is the great aphrodisiac.Henry Kissinge
If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.G. K. Chesterton
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.Cornelius Tacitus
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.Louis
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.Carl Jung, "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917
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
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.Neville Chamberlain
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
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.Lyman Bryson
All power in human hands is liable to be abused.Sarah Bernhardt
Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.Mary Wollstonecraft
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.Anthony Robbins
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.Tryon Edwards
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.Bryce Courtenay
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.Ovid
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.Johann von Goethe
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.Henrik Ibsen
Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great1. Conviction of the powers of goodness. 2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion. 3. Helping all who are trying to be and do good.Swami Vivekananda
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.John Ernst Steinbeck
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
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
