Power Quotes

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Lord Acton

It is a political axiom that power follows property.

Aldous Huxley

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Marcus Aurelius

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Jean Anouilh

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Ralph Nader

All for one and one for one, our government has strayed.

James Dye

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

Thomas Malthus

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James A. Baldwin

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

Nate Silver

Prayer is mans greatest power!

W. Clement Stone

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Mao Zedong

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart Udall

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

William Shakespeare

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

Eric Hoffer

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

Judd Rose

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

Ron Kind

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Charles de Gaulle

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Harry F. Banks

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Roger Bannister