Power Quotes

"A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"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?"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Money: power at its most liquid"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it"

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet

"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Only he deserves power who every day justifies it"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"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"

George Orwell, Author

"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception"

George Orwell, Author

"Liberal: a power worshipper without power"

George Orwell, Author

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

George Washington, President

"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet"

Horace, Poet

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

George Orwell, Author

"The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune"

William Penn, Leader

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

Steven Wright, Comedian

"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"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way"

Tina Turner, Musician

"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough"

Andrew Jackson, President

"Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support"

Andrew Jackson, President

"Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Power tires only those who do not have it"

Giulio Andreotti, Politician

"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated"

Andrew Jackson, President

"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"

Andrew Jackson, President

"It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States"

Andrew Jackson, President

"In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

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