Power Quotes

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

William Pitt

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Johann von Goethe

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Johann von Goethe

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Charles Babbage

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

Craig Bruce

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

Charles Hodge

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

Olive Schreiner

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

Edmund Burke

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Job 1:21

Bible

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. Proverbs 24:5

Bible

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Indira Gandhi

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Jeremy Bentham

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Friedrich Schiller

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

Ben Harper

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

Leo Tolstoy

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Charles de Secondat

We must transcend the illusion that money or power has any bearing on our worthiness as children of God.

Steve Maraboli