Power Quotes
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 miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.Mark Twain
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Lord Acton
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.Miguel de Cervantes
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.Thomas Hobbes
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.Wendell Phillips
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.Mark Rutherford
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.Edwin Whipple
All human power is a compound of time and patience.Honore de Balzac
A King as such is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
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.
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.Jeremy Taylo
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.John F. Kennedy
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.George Washington
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.Charles Robert Darwin
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.Edmund Burke
Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.Benjamin Franklin
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.Roger Sta
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.Lewis Mumford
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.William Hazlitt
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.Benjamin Franklin
Either you think - - Or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.F Scott
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.
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
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.Charles Gordon
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.Unknown
This world is the will to power - And nothing besides!Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.Mary Bertone
What power has law where only money rules.Gaius Petronius
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
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
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
Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.Basil King
