Power Quotes

"The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted"

James Madison, President

"Repentance is but want of power to sin"

John Dryden, Poet

"People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power"

James Madison, President

"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived"

James Madison, President

"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done"

James Madison, President

"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree"

James Madison, President

"Diplomacy: the art of restraining power"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

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

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse"

James Madison, President

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations"

James Madison, President

"When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different"

John Galsworthy, Author

"There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible"

John Galsworthy, Author

"The power to do good is also the power to do harm"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"Power is the great aphrodisiac"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned"

Georges Jacques Danton, Revolutionary

"For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition"

Henry Clay, Statesman

"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality"

Brian Herbert, Author

"Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them"

Brian Herbert, Author

"Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence"

Brian Herbert, Author

"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"The power of the people and the power of reason are one"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design"

Larry Wall, Author

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