Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

power

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix

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 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes from C. S. Lewis

Words, without power, is mere philosophy. 14 quotes 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 sayings from C. S. Lewis

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. 14 quotes from Muhammad Iqbal

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. 11 more views 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 more thoughts from Fyodor Dostoevsky

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. 11 other sayings from Bruce Lee

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. 52 quotes from Albert Camus

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. 18 other views from Baruch Spinoza

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. 78 views 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 views from Abigail Adams

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few. 14 sayings from Wendell Phillips

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. 78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command. 10 thoughts from Billy Sunday

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. 13 other quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Schiller

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. 19 quotes from Jonathan Swift

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. 29 sayings from Friedrich Schiller

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. 19 more thoughts from Charles de Gaulle

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. 74 wisdom & wit 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 more views from Jonathan Swift

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. 74 more views from Winston Churchill

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. 5 more quotes from Indira Gandhi

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. 11 other sayings from Aneurin Bevan

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. 6 quotes from Felix Frankfurter

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. 52 more quotes from George Eliot

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. 19 wisdom & wit from Charles de Gaulle

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. 78 quotes from Voltaire

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. 75 views from Benjamin Disraeli

The eye sees what it brings the power to see. 58 views from Thomas Carlyle

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. 7 sayings 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 other quotes from Samuel Butler

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. 3 wisdom & wit 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 views from George Santayana

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. 7 thoughts 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 other thoughts 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 sayings from Samuel Smiles

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. 11 sayings from Joseph Stalin

I cured with the power that came through me. 5 other quotes from Black Elk

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. 3 other wisdom & wit from Charles Simmons

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. 12 quotes 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 other quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

The only real power comes out of a long rifle. 11 views 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 thoughts from Samuel Butler

To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power. 12 more 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 more sayings from Black Elk

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. 11 other quotes from Manuel Puig

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 views from William E. Gladstone

Words derive their power from the original word. 11 quotes from Meister Eckhart

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 quotes from Virginia Woolf

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. 19 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe

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 more thoughts from Orison Swett Marden

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. 6 more views from Jules Renard

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 more views from Plutarch

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. 16 thoughts from Alan Watts

Knowledge is power. 67 other wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. 10 other thoughts from Edward Abbey

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. 37 other sayings from Edmund Burke

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. 17 more 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 other quotes from Daniel Webster

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. 45 more sayings 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 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Plutarch

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. 14 other wisdom & wit from Stendhal

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. 13 other 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 sayings from Francis Bacon

Knowledge and human power are synonymous. 67 thoughts from Francis Bacon

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. 6 sayings from Jacob Bronowski

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. 30 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 quotes from Orison Swett Marden

Power is paradoxical. 17 more sayings from Friedrich Durrenmatt

Power ought to serve as a check to power. 10 wisdom & wit from Charles de Secondat

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will. 13 thoughts from Alexander Hamilton

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. 14 wisdom & wit from Stendhal

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. 41 sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. 12 wisdom & wit from Daniel Webster

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. 67 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 views from Charles de Montesquieu

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. 3 wisdom & wit from Everett Dirksen

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. 73 more quotes 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 quotes from Ayn Rand

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. 47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. 24 quotes 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 other quotes from George Meredith

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. 30 quotes from George Washington

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. 6 more quotes from Huey Newton

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. 6 more sayings from Barbara Jordan

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. 25 other sayings from Simone Weil

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. 24 wisdom & wit from Ayn Rand

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself? 13 other wisdom & wit from Francois Rabelais

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. 25 views from Simone Weil

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. 45 quotes from John Ruskin

People demand freedom only when they have no power. 26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. 9 quotes 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 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 other 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 more quotes from W. E. B. Du Bois

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. 7 more quotes from Jeremy Bentham

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. 45 quotes from John Ruskin

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. 31 more quotes from Thomas Paine

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. 4 thoughts 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

We have it in our power to begin the world over again. 31 quotes from Thomas Paine

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. 25 wisdom & wit from Simone Weil

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. 6 other sayings from Thomas J. Watson

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. 4 other wisdom & wit from Robert Burton

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? 9 more thoughts from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. 11 other views from Rene Descartes

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. 27 more views from James Madison

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. 16 views from Erich Fromm

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. 27 more quotes 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 other sayings 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 more thoughts from Amelia Barr

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. 11 more wisdom & wit 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 other views from Robert Frost

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. 12 other sayings 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 more views from A. J. P. Taylor

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. 27 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from James Madison

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. 16 wisdom & wit from Erich Fromm

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power. 9 quotes from Andrew Jackson

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. 5 sayings from Augustus Hare

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. 27 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

Character is power. 10 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. 10 quotes 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 other thoughts from John Muir

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. 14 wisdom & wit from Edward Gibbon

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. 14 other thoughts from Vladimir Lenin

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. 27 other quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. 21 quotes 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 sayings from Thomas Hobbes

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. 2 sayings from Oskar Schindler

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. 14 views 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 wisdom & wit from Robert Collier

Power is not alluring to pure minds. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. 7 wisdom & wit from Arnold J. Toynbee

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. 16 quotes from David Hume

The incentive to ambition is the love of power. 38 sayings from William Hazlitt

The law always limits every power it gives. 16 views from David Hume

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves. 38 more quotes from William Hazlitt

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. 3 other wisdom & wit from Mary Pickford

The power of imagination makes us infinite. 13 quotes 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 views from Edward Gibbon

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. 41 more thoughts from Marcus Aurelius

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. 42 views from Josh Billings

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. 41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. 18 quotes from Emile M. Cioran

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 quotes from Vladimir Nabokov

To live happily is an inward power of the soul. 41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. 21 thoughts from William Wordsworth

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

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. 11 views from Norman Vincent Peale

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. 53 more quotes 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 quotes from Bertrand Russell

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. 135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. 46 other quotes from John F. Kennedy

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. 11 sayings 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 other quotes from Robert Hall

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. 24 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 other wisdom & wit from Salvador Dali

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. 45 thoughts from Bertrand Russell

Nothing external to you has any power over you. 135 other sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. 24 other sayings 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 quotes 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 more quotes from Malcolm X

Power is dangerous unless you have humility. 2 other 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 other wisdom & wit from Malcolm X

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing. 6 thoughts from Catherine the Great

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. 6 views 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 quotes from Bertrand Russell

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. 11 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes from John Stuart Mill

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears. 10 views 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 wisdom & wit from James A. Baldwin

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. 53 more views from Honore de Balzac

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. 58 quotes 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 quotes from Blaise Pascal

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. 57 more wisdom & wit from Blaise Pascal

A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else. 15 other sayings 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 more thoughts from Stokely Carmichael

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. 47 more 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 views from Brigham Young

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. 15 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. 6 sayings from Charles Kingsley

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. 47 more wisdom & wit 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 other thoughts from George Orwell

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. 26 quotes 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 other quotes from Pearl S. Buck

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. 3 more quotes from George A. Smith

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything. 11 views from David Ogilvy

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. 58 wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. 2 more views 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. 8 more wisdom & wit from Benito Mussolini

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power. 8 thoughts from Benito Mussolini

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. 45 quotes 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 quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. 31 quotes from Eric Hoffer

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. 2 thoughts 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 more quotes from John Quincy Adams

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. 13 wisdom & wit from Dag Hammarskjold

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. 31 quotes from Eric Hoffer

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. 2 sayings from Thurgood Marshall

Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. 115 other thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. 115 thoughts 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 views from George Bernard Shaw

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. 19 other sayings 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 views from E. B. White

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. 115 quotes 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 thoughts 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 views 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 quotes from Theodore Dreiser

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. 9 wisdom & wit 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 more 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 sayings from Maggie Kuhn

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. 2 views from C. Wright Mills

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. 5 thoughts from Davy Crockett

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. 12 other wisdom & wit from Bernard Baruch

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power. 2 more 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 quotes from Samuel Johnson

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. 63 other views 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 quotes from Vinoba Bhave

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? 13 other quotes from Sydney J. Harris

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. 63 views from Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. 5 quotes 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 other views from David O. McKay

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. 26 other quotes 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 other thoughts from Miguel de Cervantes

Order is power. 24 more quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. 26 other quotes 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 thoughts 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 other sayings 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 more thoughts 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 more quotes from Agnes de Mille

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. 103 sayings 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 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. 30 views 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 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Jean Rostand

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. 18 other views 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 sayings 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 more sayings 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 wisdom & wit from John Adams

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. 18 thoughts 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 views from Georg Buchner

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. 15 quotes from William Penn