Power Quotes

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

"The eye sees what it brings the power to see."

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

"I believe the gun has no power at all."

"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."

"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."

"The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged."

"Authority must be respected and chosen wisely."

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

"There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."

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

"No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself."

"In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power."

"Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established."

"Every reign must submit to a greater reign."

"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power."

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness."

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

"Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power."

"Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me."

"Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide."

"The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer."

"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."

"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

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

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."

"Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say."

"Words have a lot of power."

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

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

"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence."

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."

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

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

"The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power."

"We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."

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

"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been."

"To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power."

"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."

"I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me."

"Words, without power, is mere philosophy."

"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."

"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."

"In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it."

"In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural."

"Order is power."