Power Quotes

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.

David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

Mark Twain

I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988

The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.

Dennis Kucinich

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.

Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

General Omar Bradley

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Abigail Adams

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Albert Einstein

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935

Words - - So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead - Lined room with armed guards - - And even then I have my doubts.

Eugene H. Spafford

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

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Emile Coue

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Rene Descartes

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

Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Stephen King

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.

Eric Amble

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Tyron Edwards

The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

Theodor Herzl

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Edwin Teale

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora.

American Indian Prove

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - - For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

S? ren Kierkegaard