Power Quotes
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.Wendell Phillips
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.Honore de Balzac
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.Randall Wallace
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
All power in human hands is liable to be abused.Sarah Bernhardt
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.John Sloan Dickey
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.Charles Caleb Colton
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
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
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
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.Rene Descartes
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.Charles De Gaulle
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
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
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
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - - The power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never underestimate the power of passion.Eve Sawye
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
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.Edwin Teale
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.W. Somerset Maugham
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.Brenda Ueland
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.W. Wirt
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 greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.La Rochefoucauld
It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.Marya Mannes
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.Michael Faraday
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.Jean de La Fontaine
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.General Omar Bradley
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.Friedrich Nietzsche
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
