Power Quotes
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Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.
Nicolas Winding Refn
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
Tacitus
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If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.
Ethan Canin
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Leaders of the various Iraqi elements will likely have their own militias, and there will be endless rounds of brinkmanship on the road to post-Islamic State boundaries, governing structures, and distribution of power and resources.
David Petraeus
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The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
Edmund Morris
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I think that fiction has a certain power.
Jesmyn Ward
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The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
Thomas Hobbes
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Tolstoy didn't know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status of the Russian peasant classes. In 'Anna Karenina,' nineteenth-century life itself is a relentless, relentlessly modern machine, flattening those who oppose it.
Elif Batuman
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I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.
Natalie Portman
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America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.
Anohni
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The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Baruch Spinoza
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The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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People were often good, and did good things, such as the things that had been done to help after Vesuvius erupted, but as soon as those same people were given any authority or power, they abused it, or ignored the human consequences of their actions. And the people who ended up suffering most were always the women, because they had no authority or power.
Anthony Capella
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Power is the goal of religion in general.
Norman Lear
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Oscar always opens up doors, especially the night of the Oscars. On that night, you hold that gold man, and it's like having Gandalf's staff. You can go anywhere and do anything. It's a talisman of such power.
Alex Gibney
