Power Quotes

"Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

"Politics is a game of power; the more power you have, the more successful your policies will be"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own"

Herbert Hoover, President

"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice"

John Rawls, Educator

"I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism"

Craig L. Thomas, Politician

"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people"

George Mason, Statesman

"Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists"

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

"Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss"

Edward Grey, Politician

"From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind"

Boyd Rice, Artist

"The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless"

Paul Harris, Entertainer

"The power of social media is it forces necessary change"

Erik Qualman, Author

"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices"

Voltaire, Writer

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Knowledge is power"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power"

Robert Frost, Poet

"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

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