Power Quotes

Mao tse - tung - political power grows out of the barrel of a gun....
John lehman, secretary of the navy, 1981 - 1987 - power corrupts. absolute power is kind of neat....
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.
Stephen Hawking
Jane austen, northanger abbey, 1818 - in every power, of which taste is the foundation,...
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
John P. Grie
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
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 choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
Origen
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
Abraham Lincoln
Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.
James Russell Lowell
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
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.
John D. Rockefelle
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.
Mark Twain
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.
Agathon
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
William Hazlitt
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.
Saville
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Decto
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fonda
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
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
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
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 great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.
Lyman Bryson
Power never takes a back step - Only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
Mary Bertone
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Anthony Robbins
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
Dixie Lee Ray
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.
Jean Anouilh