Famous Quotes
- But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
- Edward Gibbon on Power
- But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
- Alan Watts on Power
- But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.
- Lafcadio Hearn on Power
- By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
- Mark Zuckerberg on Power
- By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
- George Santayana on Power
- Calmness is the cradle of power.
- J. G. Holland on Power
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
- George Bernard Shaw on Power
- Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
- Barney Frank on Power
- Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
- Charlotte Davis Kasl on Power
- Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
- Character is power.
- Booker T. Washington on Power
- Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Power
- Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
- Ambrose Bierce on Power
- Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah on Power
- Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
- John F. Kennedy on Power
- Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
- Vladimir Lenin on Power
- Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
- Louisa May Alcott on Power
- Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
- Ronald Reagan on Power
- Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
- Milton Friedman on Power
- Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
- Noam Chomsky on Power
- Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
- William Plomer on Power
- Culture follows power.
- Fareed Zakaria on Power
- Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
- Andrew Jackson on Power
- Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
- Henry A. Kissinger on Power
- Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
- Barbara Jordan on Power
- Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
- Phillips Brooks on Power
- Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
- Abigail Adams on Power
- Doing the right thing has power.
- Laura Linney on Power
- Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
- Thomas Fuller on Power
- Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
- Barbara Corcoran on Power
- Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- George Orwell on Power
- Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Power
- 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 on Power
- Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
- Deborah Tannen on Power
- Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
- Kofi Annan on Power
- Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
- Brigham Young on Power
- Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald on Power
- Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
- Christopher Walken on Power
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
- Honore De Balzac on Power
- Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
- Wendell Phillips on Power
- Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
- Ambrose Bierce on Power
- Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
- Margaret J. Wheatley on Power
- Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
- Horace Mann on Power
- Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
- Pete Stark on Power
- Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
- William Moulton Marston on Power
- Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
- Andrew Jackson on Power
- Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey on Power
- Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
- Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
- Aldous Huxley on Power
- Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
- Samuel Richardson on Power
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