Power Quotes
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.Henri de Lubac
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.Eric Hoffe
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks.Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.Akhenaton
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.Cornelius Tacitus
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.W. Somerset Maugham
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
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
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
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.Thomas Bailey
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.George Bernard Shaw
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.Louis
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
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
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.Jacob Chanowski
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.Aristotle
The world itself is the will to power - And nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - And nothing else!Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power".
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
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.Blaine Lee
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.Johann von Goethe
The conscience of a people is their power.John Dryden
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.Johnson
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.Leonardo da Vinci
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
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.John P. Grie
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.Lyndon B. Johnson
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.Abraham Lincoln
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.Friedrich Nietzche
Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks.Carol Botwin
The death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann von Goethe
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.Kahlil Gibran
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
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
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
