Power Quotes

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Fawn M. Brodie

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.

Theodore Harold White

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

Mark Twain

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Great is truth, and all powerful.

Vulgate

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Emile Coue

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Russell Bake

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Erastus Flavel Beadle

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

James Bridie

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

Mary Bertone

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

Johannes Meister Eckhart

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms".

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Ludwig Boerne

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

Euripides, 438 B. C.

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.

Mary Manin Morrissey

As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.

Tench Coxe

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Joseph Addison

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Walt Whitman

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Tryon Edwards

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

William Proxmire

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

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Edwin Teale

Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

Ronal Reagan, 20 March 1981

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 27, 2003

What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise.

William Carlos Williams

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