Power Quotes

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason".

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?

I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power.

David McCord

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.

Emily Taft Douglas

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. On President Ronald Reagan.

Muammar Qaddafi

Power never takes a back step - Only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

Character is power.

Booker T. Washington

Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Steve Droke

He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Salvador De Madriaga

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Thucyclides

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

Alexander Graham Bell

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Unknown

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.

Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991

Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.

Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

I regret to say that we of the F. B. I. are powerless to act in cases of oral - Genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

J. Edgar Hoove

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Ursula K. LeGuin

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.

Giuseppe Mazzini

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 sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647

Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.

Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

James F. Byrnes

A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.

Aldous Huxley

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Michael Bakunin, God and State

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Eric Hoffe

Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Mao Tse Tung

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

Sallust

Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.

James Russell Lowell