Power Quotes

Laurence j. pete - real, constructive mental power lies in the...
J. michael straczynski - no dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned...
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
Mary Bertone
Lincoln steffens - power is what men seek, and any group that gets...
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns, To A Louse
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.
James Harvey Robinson
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
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?
Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love.
The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Letter, 1917
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.
Jean Anouilh
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels.
Theodor Herzl
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.
Anthony Brandt
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James F. Byrnes
Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818
Use power to curb power.
Chinese Prove
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
David Seabury
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
Juvenal
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Chanowski
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.
Ken Keyes
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton, 1887
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fonda
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
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
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.
Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.
Alexander Hamilton
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981 - 1987