Power Quotes
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.Jacob Chanowski
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
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.Unknown
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.Lord Acton
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.H. G. Wells
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.Robert Burns, To A Louse
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
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.Edwin Whipple
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.Henrik Ibsen
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.Henry Kissinge
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.Friedrich Nietzsche
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.Ovid
The measure of a man is what he does with power.Pittacus
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.Plutarch
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.Henry Kissinge
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.Origen
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
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.Michael Faraday
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.Randall Wallace
This world is the will to power - And nothing besides!Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.Michael Bakunin, God and State
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.Herbert Clark Hoove
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.Robert Burns
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.Seneca
Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.Mao Tse Tung
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.Mary Howitt
Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great1. Conviction of the powers of goodness. 2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion. 3. Helping all who are trying to be and do good.Swami Vivekananda
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.Euripides
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.Abigail Adams
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.William Wordsworth
Man has responsibility, not power.Tuscarora prove
