Power Quotes

"The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract"

"Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"Never underestimate the power of a simple tool"

Craig Bruce

"For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened"

Madame de Stael, Writer

"Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities"

Madame de Stael, Writer

"Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

"Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future"

Lord Acton, Historian

"It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness"

Robert Plant, Musician

"'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought"

Lord Acton, Historian

"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses"

Malcolm X, Activist

"So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them"

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world"

Karl Popper, Philosopher

"When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself "

Anne Bronte, Novelist

"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"I am against intervention by a foreign power against us"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives"

James Madison, President

"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power"

Mark Rutherford, Writer

"People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready"

Imran Khan, Politician

"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed"

John Tillotson, Theologian

"He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

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