Power Quotes

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

Samuel Butler

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Plato

There is an abundance of power to be found in simplicity.

Steve Maraboli

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

William Wordsworth

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

Thomas Jefferson

Until such time as people reject the power of government to govern, to legislate, and to punish, war will never stop.

Leo Tolstoy

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

John F. Kennedy

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Richard Dawkins

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Howard Zinn

Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power. History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.

Christopher Hitchens

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

E. B. White

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

Money: power at its most liquid.

Mason Cooley

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Bertrand Russell

Social thinking dilutes most personal power.

Steve Maraboli

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Abraham Lincoln

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Benjamin F. Wade