Power Quotes

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

Cicero

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

William Plome

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore de Balzac

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon? laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution? these can lift at a colossal humbug? push it a little? weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Marya Mannes

Austin Powers Do I make you horny Randy Do I make you horny, baby, yeah, do I.

Austin Powers International Man of Mystery

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Angel Blessing

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Jacob Chanowski

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

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potte

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

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

Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.

Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinge

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2

Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

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

Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Carl Jung

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

W. Wirt

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

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

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

Margaret Thatche

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Aristotle

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

Thomas Bailey

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

Ursula K. LeGuin

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Edwin Whipple

Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.

Susan Johnson

Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

Scarface

Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend

Customs are more powerful than laws.

The Talmud