Power Quotes

Joseph stalin - i believe in one thing only, the power of the...
Charles gordon - if you tell the truth, you have infinite power...
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Chanowski
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns, To A Louse
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.
Mia Hamm
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.
The Dhammapada
Fawn m. brodie - a passion for politics stems usually from an...
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Lord Tennyson
Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora.
American Indian Prove
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
Michael Bakunin, God and State
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim, it was only a dream.
Unknown
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
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.
Carl Sandburg
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - - For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
S? ren Kierkegaard
Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.
Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.
Sir Winston Churchill
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
Lincoln Steffens
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.
Eric Hoffe
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.
Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Whipple
Customs are more powerful than laws.
The Talmud
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
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
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.
Anthony Brandt
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.
Germaine Gree
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it? s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brin, on power and corruption
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.
Proverbs 3: 27
Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Robert Henri
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.
Julie Arabi
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.
David L Boren