Power Quotes
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.Primo Levi
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.Voltaire
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.Charles Caleb Colton
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.Paul Aubuchon
It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.Smiley Blanton
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.Woody Allen
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.Barbara Colorose
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.Euripides
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.B. F. Skinne
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
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.Mark Rutherford
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.Toni Morrison, American writer (1931 -)
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.Hellen Kelle
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.Willa Sibert Cathe
A King as such is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.Russell Bake
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure.Nicolas Boileau
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.John F. Kennedy
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.William Hazlitt
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.Aldous Huxley
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!Theodor Herzl
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.Charles Gordon
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it? s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.David Brin, on power and corruption
Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.Mao Tse Tung
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.Jimi Hendrix
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.Henry Kissinge
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.Samuel Smiles
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
Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.Susan Johnson
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
