Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. 27 other quotes from James Madison
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. 11 thoughts from Rene Descartes
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? 9 other thoughts from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. 16 quotes from Erich Fromm
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. 27 sayings from James Madison
Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. 18 quotes from Jean Paul
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. 5 views from Amelia Barr
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. 11 more quotes from Rene Descartes
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. 50 more views from Robert Frost
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. 12 other thoughts from Julius Caesar
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. 2 thoughts from A. J. P. Taylor
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. 27 more views from James Madison
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein
The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. 27 sayings from James Madison
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. 16 other quotes from Erich Fromm
The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power. 9 views from Andrew Jackson
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. 5 more thoughts from Augustus Hare
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. 27 other sayings from James Madison
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. 105 more sayings from Albert Einstein
Character is power. 10 quotes from Booker T. Washington
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. 70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. 10 sayings from Booker T. Washington
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. 13 more quotes from John Muir
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. 14 more thoughts from Edward Gibbon
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. 14 more sayings from Vladimir Lenin
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. 27 more thoughts from Leonardo da Vinci
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. 21 more views from William Wordsworth
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. 8 quotes from Thomas Hobbes
I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. 2 wisdom & wit from Oskar Schindler
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. 14 more quotes from Clarence Darrow
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. 9 quotes from Robert Collier
Power is not alluring to pure minds. 70 other sayings from Thomas Jefferson
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. 7 more thoughts from Arnold J. Toynbee
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. 16 other wisdom & wit from David Hume
The incentive to ambition is the love of power. 38 quotes from William Hazlitt
The law always limits every power it gives. 16 other quotes from David Hume
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves. 38 views from William Hazlitt
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. 3 quotes from Mary Pickford
The power of imagination makes us infinite. 13 thoughts from John Muir
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. 4 quotes from Charles Evans Hughes
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. 14 wisdom & wit from Edward Gibbon
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. 41 wisdom & wit from Marcus Aurelius
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. 42 wisdom & wit from Josh Billings
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. 41 wisdom & wit from Marcus Aurelius
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. 18 other thoughts from Emile M. Cioran
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. 21 views from William Wordsworth
To live happily is an inward power of the soul. 41 views from Marcus Aurelius
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. 9 sayings from Vladimir Nabokov
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. 11 other wisdom & wit from Norman Vincent Peale
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. 46 other quotes from John F. Kennedy
Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. 53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. 45 sayings from Bertrand Russell
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. 135 other views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. 46 views from John F. Kennedy
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. 53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. 11 quotes from Horace Mann
Every crisis offers you extra desired power. 3 quotes from William Moulton Marston
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. 4 sayings from Robert Hall
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. 24 other quotes from James A. Baldwin
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. 11 thoughts from Salvador Dali
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. 45 sayings from Bertrand Russell
Nothing external to you has any power over you. 135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. 24 more thoughts from Joseph Addison
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
Power and speed be hands and feet. 135 other sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power in America today is control of the means of communication. 5 more wisdom & wit from Theodore White
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. 21 wisdom & wit from Malcolm X
Power is dangerous unless you have humility. 2 more quotes from Richard J. Daley
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. 21 quotes from Malcolm X
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing. 6 quotes from Catherine the Great
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. 6 other quotes from Benjamin Spock
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. 45 other wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. 11 thoughts from John Stuart Mill
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. 11 wisdom & wit from John Stuart Mill
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears. 10 quotes from Wilson Mizner
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. 24 more quotes from James A. Baldwin
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. 24 sayings from James A. Baldwin
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. 58 sayings from Henry Ward Beecher
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. 57 views from Blaise Pascal
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. 57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else. 15 other quotes from Pierre Corneille
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. 8 other sayings from Stokely Carmichael
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. 47 other quotes from George Orwell
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life. 5 other quotes from Brigham Young
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. 15 sayings from Reinhold Niebuhr
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. 6 thoughts from Charles Kingsley
Liberal: a power worshipper without power. 47 other thoughts from George Orwell
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. 15 quotes from Pierre Corneille
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. 47 sayings from George Orwell
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. 26 thoughts from Frank Lloyd Wright
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. 18 quotes from Pearl S. Buck
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. 3 other sayings from George A. Smith
The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything. 11 other views from David Ogilvy
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. 58 more thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. 2 sayings from William Pitt
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. 2 more views from William Pitt
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. 19 quotes from Carl Jung
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. 14 quotes from Robert A. Heinlein
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. 45 sayings from Aldous Huxley
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. 115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. 8 thoughts from Benito Mussolini
Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power. 8 more wisdom & wit from Benito Mussolini
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. 45 other wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. 14 more quotes from Robert A. Heinlein
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. 31 other views from Eric Hoffer
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. 2 views from Nelson Rockefeller
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. 7 quotes from John Quincy Adams
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. 13 quotes from Dag Hammarskjold
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. 31 more quotes from Eric Hoffer
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. 2 other quotes from Thurgood Marshall
Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. 115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. 31 sayings from Eric Hoffer
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. 115 other wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. 19 other views from Alexis de Tocqueville
The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. 3 quotes from Jerry Rubin
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. 19 sayings from E. B. White
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. 115 sayings from George Bernard Shaw
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. 22 quotes from Samuel Richardson
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. 15 thoughts from Walter Scott
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. 3 sayings from Theodore Dreiser
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. 9 more quotes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! 22 other quotes from Samuel Richardson
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. 50 views from Napoleon Bonaparte
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. 50 thoughts from Napoleon Bonaparte
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many. 3 other views from Maggie Kuhn
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. 2 sayings from C. Wright Mills
The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. 5 other thoughts from Davy Crockett
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. 12 quotes from Bernard Baruch
But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power. 2 quotes from Joshua Chamberlain
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. 63 more quotes from Samuel Johnson
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world. 2 more quotes from Vinoba Bhave
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? 13 thoughts from Sydney J. Harris
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. 5 more views from Robert Staughton Lynd
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! 3 thoughts from David O. McKay
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. 26 other sayings from Theodor Adorno
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. 21 wisdom & wit from Miguel de Cervantes
Order is power. 24 other quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. 63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. 26 views from Theodor Adorno
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. 26 quotes from Theodor Adorno
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. 21 more wisdom & wit from Leo Tolstoy
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. 4 other quotes from Henry George
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. 5 sayings from Cesare Pavese
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking. 2 quotes from Agnes de Mille
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. 103 more sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. 30 sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! 103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. 13 other wisdom & wit from Jean Rostand
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. 18 other quotes from John Adams
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. 103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. 18 quotes from John Adams
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. 28 quotes from Napoleon Hill
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. 18 quotes from John Adams
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. 18 sayings from John Adams
Power without abuse loses its charm. 16 quotes from Paul Valery
The power of the people and the power of reason are one. 6 quotes from Georg Buchner
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. 15 other quotes from William Penn
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. 11 wisdom & wit from Bruce Lee
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare! 10 other quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. 11 thoughts from Bruce Lee
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. 52 views from Albert Camus
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. 18 thoughts from Baruch Spinoza
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. 78 more sayings from Voltaire
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. 5 quotes from Abigail Adams
Beauty is power a smile is its sword. 3 wisdom & wit from John Ray
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. 5 quotes from Abigail Adams
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few. 14 quotes from Wendell Phillips
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. 78 quotes from Voltaire
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command. 10 quotes from Billy Sunday
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. 13 views from Andrew Carnegie
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. 74 other quotes from Winston Churchill
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. 14 quotes from Laurence Sterne
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. 2 quotes from Eric Sevareid
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart. 29 other sayings from Friedrich Schiller
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. 19 more thoughts from Jonathan Swift
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. 29 other views from Friedrich Schiller
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. 19 quotes from Charles de Gaulle
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. 74 other thoughts from Winston Churchill
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. 19 quotes from Jonathan Swift
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. 74 views from Winston Churchill
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. 5 more thoughts from Indira Gandhi
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. 11 more sayings from Aneurin Bevan
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. 6 other sayings from Felix Frankfurter
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. 52 views from George Eliot
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. 19 thoughts from Charles de Gaulle
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. 78 other quotes from Voltaire
Words, without power, is mere philosophy. 14 views from Muhammad Iqbal
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. 25 quotes from C. S. Lewis
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. 14 wisdom & wit from Muhammad Iqbal
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. 18 other thoughts from Baruch Spinoza
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. 25 other wisdom & wit from C. S. Lewis
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 22 other wisdom & wit from Jimi Hendrix
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. 7 more quotes from William E. Gladstone
To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power. 12 other wisdom & wit from George MacDonald
To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see. 5 quotes from Black Elk
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. 11 wisdom & wit from Manuel Puig
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. 75 more views from Benjamin Disraeli
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. 75 other views from Benjamin Disraeli
The eye sees what it brings the power to see. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. 7 thoughts from Phillips Brooks
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. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. 3 quotes from Charles Babbage
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. 46 wisdom & wit from George Santayana
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. 7 views from Phillips Brooks
Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. 14 views from Jim Morrison
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image. 5 more quotes from George Whitefield
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. 7 quotes from Samuel Smiles
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. 11 more views from Joseph Stalin
I cured with the power that came through me. 5 other wisdom & wit from Black Elk
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. 3 quotes from Charles Simmons
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. 12 wisdom & wit from Mao Zedong
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. 75 more sayings from Benjamin Disraeli
The only real power comes out of a long rifle. 11 thoughts from Joseph Stalin
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' 68 other sayings from Samuel Butler
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. 16 thoughts from Alan Watts
Knowledge is power. 67 more quotes from Francis Bacon
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. 10 quotes from Edward Abbey
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. 37 more thoughts from Edmund Burke
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. 17 quotes from Friedrich Durrenmatt
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. 37 sayings from Edmund Burke
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. 12 more quotes from Daniel Webster
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. 45 views from Thomas Fuller
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. 41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. 17 quotes from Plutarch
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. 14 thoughts from Stendhal
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. 13 more quotes from Alexander Hamilton
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will. 13 quotes from Alexander Hamilton
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. 67 other sayings from Francis Bacon
Knowledge and human power are synonymous. 67 more quotes from Francis Bacon
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. 6 quotes from Jacob Bronowski
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. 30 more sayings from Virginia Woolf
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. 41 other quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. 40 other quotes from William James
Power gravitates to the man who knows how. 25 other views from Orison Swett Marden
Power is paradoxical. 17 sayings from Friedrich Durrenmatt
Power ought to serve as a check to power. 10 more sayings from Charles de Secondat
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will. 13 more quotes from Alexander Hamilton
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. 14 quotes from Stendhal
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. 41 more sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. 12 views from Daniel Webster
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. 67 more wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. 14 other quotes from Charles de Montesquieu
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. 3 sayings from Everett Dirksen
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. 17 other quotes from Plutarch
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. 6 quotes from Jules Renard
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? 25 other quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. 30 other sayings from Virginia Woolf
Words derive their power from the original word. 11 more quotes from Meister Eckhart
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. 19 more views from Edgar Allan Poe
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. 6 quotes from Thomas J. Watson
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. 25 views from Simone Weil
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. 4 more quotes from Robert Burton
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. 31 other views from Thomas Paine
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. 73 views from Victor Hugo
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. 24 other views from Ayn Rand
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. 47 wisdom & wit from Abraham Lincoln
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. 24 wisdom & wit from Ayn Rand
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. 29 sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power. 4 quotes from George Meredith
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. 30 other quotes from George Washington
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. 6 more views from Huey Newton
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. 6 thoughts from Barbara Jordan
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. 25 quotes from Simone Weil
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. 24 sayings from Ayn Rand
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself? 13 thoughts from Francois Rabelais
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. 25 other quotes from Simone Weil
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. 45 sayings from John Ruskin
People demand freedom only when they have no power. 26 sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. 9 more views from John Steinbeck
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. 22 more wisdom & wit from Henry Adams
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain. 14 quotes from Susan B. Anthony
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? 3 quotes from W. E. B. Du Bois
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. 7 views from Jeremy Bentham
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. 45 more quotes from John Ruskin
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. 31 sayings from Thomas Paine
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. 4 more views from Thomas Malthus
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. 47 thoughts from Abraham Lincoln