Power Quotes

"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk"

Ronald Reagan, President

"We have the power to create a better future for ourselves and for the planet. The question is, what kind of future do we want to create?"

Peter Knights, Activist

"We have the power to change the world for the better. The question is, do we have the will?"

Peter Knights, Activist

"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always"

Willa Cather, Author

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

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