Power Quotes
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, Lacon, 1825
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
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.Katherine Mansfield
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 full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.Mary Cholmondeley
In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.John Henry Newman
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.Nadine Gordime
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.Ernest Hemingway
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.Mao Tse - Tung
We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.Paul Weyrich
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.Ralph Waldo Trine
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.Sir William Drape
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.Earl Nightingale
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
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 a sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.Toni Morrison, American writer (1931 -)
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.Katharine Graham
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.Meryl Streep
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.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.Nadia Boulange
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten much as we can easily destroy our puny selves.Stephen Jay Gould
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.William Shakespeare
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
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.Eric Amble
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
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
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.James Bridie
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.Epictetus
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.Charles Caleb Colton
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.John Randolph
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
