Power Quotes

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

George W. Bush

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

William Hazlitt

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Aeschylus

Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!

Steve Maraboli

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

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Thomas Aquinas

If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

Mary Wollstonecraft

I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Friedrich Schiller

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

Orson Scott Card

When all that says 'it is good' has been debunked, what says 'I want' remains. (...) The Conditioners, therefore, must come to be motivated simply by their own pleasure. (...) My point is that those who stand outside all judgements of value cannot have any ground for preferring one of their own impulses to another except the emotional strength of that impulse. (...) I am very doubtful myself whether the benevolent impulses, stripped of that preference and encouragement which the teaches us to give them and left to their merely natural strength and frequency as psychological events, will have much influence. I am very doubtful whether history shows us one example of a man who, having stepped outside traditional morality and attained power, has used that power benevolently.

C.S. Lewis

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Walt Whitman

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Jacob Bronowski

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Vaclav Havel

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Jean Genet

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time.

Leo Tolstoy

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

Evel Knievel

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Daniel J. Boorstin