Power Quotes

"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

"A friend in power is a friend lost"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"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"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another"

George Eliot, Author

"I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers"

William Blake, Poet

"I'm not a hippie, I'm a bro. I enjoy power drinking, urinating outdoors, and blowing things up"

Barney Stinson, Actor

"The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers"

Gail Godwin, Novelist

"Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

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

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"The law always limits every power it gives"

David Hume, Philosopher

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles"

Walter Scott, Novelist

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