Power Quotes

Rudyard kipling - words are, of course, the most powerful drug used...
Karl poppe - there is no history of mankind, there are only...
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
Benjamin Franklin
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power.
David McCord
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
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.
Robert Burns, Poem "To a Louse" - Verse 8
Victor hugo - dream no small dreams. they have no power to stir...
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 reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.
Mia Hamm
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
Andre Malraux
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Jeremy Taylo
Women have served all these centuries as looking - Glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf
What power has law where only money rules.
Gaius Petronius
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams, Journal, 1772
The conscience of a people is their power.
John Dryden
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
Anger without power is folly.
German Prove
Great is truth, and all powerful.
Vulgate
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
Bertrand Russell
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
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
John Howe
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
William Henry Harrison
As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever.
Heini Arnold
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Louis
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
Unknown
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.
Salvador De Madriaga
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.
Sidney Madwed
Power is the ability not to have to please.
Elizabeth Janeway
Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.
W. T. Ussery
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.
Lewis Mumford