Power Quotes

"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"

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

"Power is not alluring to pure minds."

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

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

"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."

"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."

"If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense."

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."

"The law has no power over heroes."

"The way to have power is to take it."

"Unlimited power corrupts the possessor."

"Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it."

"I believe in the power of weakness."

"Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have."

"Every crisis offers you extra desired power."

"The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other."

"Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's."

"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power."

"Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere."

"Power ought to serve as a check to power."

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

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."

"The only power you have is the word no."

"Power is paradoxical."

"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love."

"The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything."

"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."

"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"

"Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey."

"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power."

"I cured with the power that came through me."

"Power is dangerous unless you have humility."

"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."

"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."

"Whoever is new to power is always harsh."

"The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away."

"The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet."

"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."

"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart."

"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."

"There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords."

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

"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."

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

"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."