Power Quotes

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

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

John Calhoun

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

Euripides, 438 B. C.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

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

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 - 82

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

The greatest power is often simple patience.

E. Joseph Crossman

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Helen Kelle

Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.

Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Author Unknown

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

Andre Malraux

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Salvador De Madriaga

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.

Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

Eric Hoffe

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

Power is the ability not to have to please.

Elizabeth Janeway

The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981 - 1987

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

J. W. Alexande

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Victor Hugo

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Albert Einstein

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

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Charles Fillmore

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.

Benjamin Franklin

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

Albert Einstein

Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?

Dick Francis, Twice Shy

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.

Jean Anouilh