Power Quotes

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

Thomas Frank

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

John Kenneth Galbraith

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

William Wordsworth

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Abigail Adams

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Aristotle

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

Whoopi Goldberg

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Blaise Pascal

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Alfred Tennyson

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Orson Scott Card

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Thomas Aquinas

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Thomas J. Watson

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Abraham Lincoln

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Samuel Johnson

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Julius Caesar

Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Ai Weiwei

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!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Leonardo da Vinci

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

Spiro T. Agnew