Power Quotes

Plato - he who does not desire power is fit to hold it....
Aldous huxley - idealism is the noble toga that political...
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
Ronnie Shakes
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.
Eric Hoffe
Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.
James Russell Lowell
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow, - - He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
Johann von Goethe
Ralph waldo emerson - a good intention clothes itself with power....
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.
Sidney Madwed
Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora.
American Indian Prove
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.
Doctor Who
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
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Steve Droke
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Plutarch
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Hellen Kelle
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Jeremy Taylo
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
The secret of all power is - Save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
Joseph Farrell
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 first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
Clarence Darrow
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.
Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
Unknown
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Bake
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuh
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry Kissinge
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?
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
Power never takes a back step - Only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
Edwin Teale