Power Quotes

"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing"

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

"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"

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

"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself"

"America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community"

"The only power you have is the word no"

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

"Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool"

"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you"

"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"

"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"

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

"Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be"

"Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions"

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

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

"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power"

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

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't"

"Power is the great aphrodisiac"

"Power is paradoxical"

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again"

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

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

"Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor"

"I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system"

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought"

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

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity"