Power Quotes
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.Fawn M. Brodie
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.Doctor Who
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.General George Catlett Marshall
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.Helen Kelle
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.J. Arthur Thomson
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.Samuel Smiles
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.Nadia Boulange
My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me.Egyptian Book of the Dead
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.John Adams
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
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.Eric Sevareid
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.Johannes Meister Eckhart
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.Albert Einstein
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.Plutarch
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.Hannah Arendt
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.Robert Frost
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.Dr. Robert Schulle
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Power never takes a back step - Only in the face of more power.Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise.William Carlos Williams
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.Victor Hugo
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.Charles Caleb Colton
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.William Gladstone
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.Sir Winston Churchill
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.Eduard Sagalaev
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.Vine Deloria
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.Epictetus
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.George Orwell
I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.John D. Rockefelle
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
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.Germaine Gree
