Power Quotes
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.John Steinbeck
Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.Margaret Thatche
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.Marcus Aurelius
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.Captain J. A. Hadfield
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.Lord Acton
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - If he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.John Stuart Mill
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
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.Walt Whitman
Absolute power is the power to destroy.Frank Herbert, Dune
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.Lord Macaulay
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.Henry Mille
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.Erich Fromm
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
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
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
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
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.James Madison
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.Robert Burns
He who has great power should use it lightly.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.Hermann Hesse
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.Katharine Graham
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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
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 secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.Ludwig Boerne
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.J. Michael Straczynski
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.George Bernard Shaw
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
