- A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Power
- A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
- Henry A. Wallace on Power
- A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
- Jean Rostand on Power
- A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
- John Kasich on Power
- A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader on Power
- A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
- Ani DiFranco on Power
- A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt on Power
- A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
- Phillips Brooks on Power
- A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Power
- A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
- Samuel Butler on Power
- A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
- Henri Matisse on Power
- A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
- Dean Koontz on Power
- A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton on Power
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
- A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
- Charles Babbage on Power
- A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
- Pierre Corneille on Power
- A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
- George Meredith on Power
- A word after a word after a word is power.
- Margaret Atwood on Power
- Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
- Bertrand Russell on Power
- Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
- Calvin Coolidge on Power
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- Russell Baker on Power
- Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?
- Sloane Crosley on Power
- All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley on Power
- All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.
- Edmund Burke on Power
- All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
- James Madison on Power
- All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
- Albert Camus on Power
- All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
- Thomas Paine on Power
- All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
- Beatrix Potter on Power
- All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo on Power
- All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
- Simone De Beauvoir on Power
- All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
- Charles A. Beard on Power
- All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
- Ronald Reagan on Power
- All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Power
- All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
- Francis Thompson on Power
- All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
- Theodore Bikel on Power
- Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
- Dee Dee Myers on Power
- Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
- Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
- Greg Anderson on Power
- Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox on Power
- Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
- Morihei Ueshiba on Power
- Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
- Douglas MacArthur on Power
- Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
- Baruch Spinoza on Power
- America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
- Adam Schiff on Power
- American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
- Camille Paglia on Power
- An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
- An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
- Daniel Webster on Power
- And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
- Lord Acton on Power
- And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
- Ayrton Senna on Power
- And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.
- And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
- Camille Paglia on Power
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