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