Power Quotes

"I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist."

"Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit."

"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."

"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."

"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."

"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."

"Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will."

"'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in."

"In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will."

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

"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."

"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power."

"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives."

"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with."

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."

"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."

"When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously."

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."

"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

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

"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."

"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."

"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago."

"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."

"Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants."

"Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it."

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

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

"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State."

"This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?"

"Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody."

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."

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

"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force."

"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."

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

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

"Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated."

"Power and speed be hands and feet."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

"The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days."

"Nothing external to you has any power over you."

"Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place."

"A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold."

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

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