Power Quotes
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
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Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.
Plato
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In times of happiness we do not begin to perceive the strength of the mighty tenderness which the deep recesses of the heart hold for those we love. We need misfortune and the sense of suffering endured by those for whom we would give our last drop of blood, to learn the power of it.
Alfred Dreyfus
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In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool - how it keeps you cool when you're hot, warm when you're cold, dry when you're wet.
Anthony Doerr
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Words have a lot of power.
Juice Wrld
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You know, it's not more knowledge, it's not more education, it's not more facts that we need. It's a better use of what we already have that we need to have. You have each and every one of you, within your potential power right now to do a wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it.
Napoleon Hill
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle
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TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.
Jonathan Zittrain
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A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.
Elisabeth Elliot
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We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.
John Wycliffe
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There's no such thing as too much power!
Wolfgang Gullich
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The limits of our military power must be obvious to all, and domestically we are divided as we have not been since Vietnam. So what should we do now? Can we think honestly about those with grievances against the U.S.? Can we think how to conclude the war in Iraq, how to offset the forces of extremism?
James Fallows
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Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.
Norman Macbeth
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. Educate and Empower & see the results.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.
Adolf Hitler
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Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have some power, but not so famous she has to deal with people buzzing around her life.
Amy Landecker
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Power of responsibility was nil at these times. There was fear afterwards, with a massive and suppressed remorse.
Brian Masters
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If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
John Calvin
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Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.
Charles Capps
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Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.
Nina Totenberg
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Even as the United States has risen to become the predominant international power, however, conflict has persisted over the nature of American society itself and what its role in the world should be.
Eric Foner
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Everything is generated through your own will power.
Ray Bradbury