Power Quotes

"A word after a word after a word is power."

"Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind."

"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."

"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."

"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power."

"An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you."

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy."

"And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice."

"Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people."

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

"As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act."

"As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way."

"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."

"Authority must be respected and chosen wisely."

"Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself."

"Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics."

"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well."

"Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will drain Faenza and Florence of gold and people."

"Building a sports power is a patriotic undertaking aimed at translating into reality the plan and wish of the great leaders, who devoted their efforts to building ours into a country that prospers and grows stronger on the strength of sports."

"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."

"By relinquishing your obsession with the past and your fantasies about the future, you can tap into the power of the present and feel the force of love that resides inside of you."

"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."

"Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy."

"Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats."

"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."

"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers."

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."

"Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power - and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness."

"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action."

"Ethics and power are separate."

"Events of human origin are uncertain, but all is regulated and governed by the incalculable power of God, inspiring us not through drunken fury nor by frantic movement, but through the influences of the stars."

"Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence."

"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."

"Every reign must submit to a greater reign."

"Everything is generated through your own will power."

"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."

"Excessive fear is always powerless."

"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."

"Glutes are power."

"Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich."

"Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent."