Power Quotes

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

Clarence Darrow

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

James Buchan

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

Ayelet Waldman

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Muhammad Iqbal

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Christopher Nolan

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

Julia Margaret Cameron

But remember, when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it but by force. Many instances can be produced in which the people have voluntarily increased the powers of their rulers; but few, if any, in which rulers have willingly abridged their authority. This is a sufficient reason to induce you to be careful, in the first instance, how you deposit the powers of government.

Robert Yates

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Richard Dawkins

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Joseph Stalin

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

Paul Harris

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

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

John F. Kennedy

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.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

Force is not a remedy.

John Bright

Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Herman Kahn

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche