Power Quotes - page 4

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. (Thomas Hobbes)
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it. View quote
Edwin H. Land
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. View quote
Clint Eastwood
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. View quote
Hannah Arendt
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. View quote
Thomas Szasz
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. (Horatio Nelson)
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. View quote
Nikola Tesla
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. View quote
Noam Chomsky
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. View quote
Albert Einstein
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
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? View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. View quote
Groucho Marx
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. View quote
Cory Doctorow
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. View quote
James Madison
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. (James Madison)
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. View quote
Andrew Jackson
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. View quote
Martin Van Buren
...there is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. View quote
William Henry Harrison
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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