Famous Quotes
- The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.
- The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
- Alfred Adler on Power
- The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- James Madison on Power
- The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
- Mark Hopkins on Power
- The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
- Vaclav Havel on Power
- The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle on Power
- The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
- Rick Perry on Power
- The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
- Henry Hazlitt on Power
- The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
- Daniel J. Boorstin on Power
- 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 on Power
- The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
- Bertrand Russell on Power
- The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
- John Stuart Mill on Power
- The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
- Theodor Adorno on Power
- The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
- M. Scott Peck on Power
- The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
- Andrew Jackson on Power
- The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
- Meryl Streep on Power
- The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
- Edmund Burke on Power
- The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
- Leo Tolstoy on Power
- The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
- Walter Annenberg on Power
- The greatest power is often simple patience.
- E. Joseph Cossman on Power
- The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
- William Booth on Power
- The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
- Charlie Chaplin on Power
- The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
- David Hume on Power
- The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
- Tom Stoppard on Power
- The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
- William Hazlitt on Power
- The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
- Noam Chomsky on Power
- The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
- Jonathan Sacks on Power
- The law always limits every power it gives.
- David Hume on Power
- The law has no power over heroes.
- Charlotte Lennox on Power
- The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
- Blaine Lee on Power
- The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
- The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- William Hazlitt on Power
- The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
- Giacomo Casanova on Power
- The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Power
- The measure of a man is what he does with power.
- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
- The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
- Glenn Beck on Power
- The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
- Willa Cather on Power
- The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.
- George W. Bush on Power
- The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Power
- The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- James Allen on Power
- The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
- John Stuart Mill on Power
- The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker on Power
- The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
- Wilson Mizner on Power
- The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today's world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.
- Simon Mainwaring on Power
- The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
- Samuel Adams on Power
- The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
- Thomas Hobbes on Power
- The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
- James Lovelock on Power
- The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
- Susan B. Anthony on Power
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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