Power Quotes - Page 2

The tyrant dies and his rule is over the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Søren Kierkegaard

Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

Alfred North Whitehead

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Walter Lippmann

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.

Charles Kingsley

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. Slavery of the acquiescent majority to the ruthless few is the hereditary state of mankind freedom a rarely acquired characteristic.

R. H. S. Crossman

Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many.

His countenance was like lightning and his raiment white as snow.

Bible

Power is the recognition of necessity.

Abraham Rotstein

If absolute power corrupts absolutely where does that leave God?

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

Liberal - a power worshipper without power.

Power is like a woman you want to stay in bed with forever.

Patrick Anderson

He who despises his own life is soon master of another's.

English Proverb

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it.

Anonymous

It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.

Rabindranath Tagore

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

T.S Eliot

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people generally do not. They fail to understand that reaching the highest levels of power has nothing to do with admired attributes such as intelligence and competence. The predominant characteristic of those who rise to the highest levels of power is a total disregard for the consequences – including death – that will befall thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions of human beings if it is deemed necessary to attain his (or her) goals. Generally speaking, it is this total disregard for humanity that has distinguished ‘rulers’ throughout history.

We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.

The power of love make everything Possible

The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the experts consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so. (The proviso is essential, because measures which arouse serious resentment are seldom advantageous, whatever merits they may have otherwise.) The power of the politician, in a democracy, depends upon his adopting the opinions which seem right to the average man. It is useless to urge that politicians ought to be high-minded enough to advocate what enlightened opinion considers good, because if they do they are swept aside for others.

Bertrand Russell

The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his associates...Moreover, since politicians are divided into rival groups, they aim at similarly dividing the nation, unless they have the good fortune to unite it in war against some other nation.

Bertrand Russell

The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.

Ignorance is a limitation.

Fearlessness can be its own form of power.

Glenn Greenwald

I chiefly concern myself with those who seldom get a hearing, & I don't feel it is incumbent on me to balance their voices with the well-crafted apologetics of the powerful. The powerful are generally excellently served by the mainstream media or propaganda organs. The powerful should be quoted, yes, but to measure their pronouncements against the truth, not to obscure it.

Joe Sacco

But I knew something that Elena hadn't. That the measure of a true queen didn't lie in her magic. It had more to do with who she was, and what she was willing to give of herself, than it did with the powers she possessed- Charlaina di Heyse

Kimberly Derting

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience,Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,A mechanised automaton.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A preoccupation with power - black power, student power, flower power, poor power, 'the power structure' - is the striking aspect of the American political scene at the moment. Oddly enough, obsession with power goes hand in hand with a fear of power. Some of the New Left groups that talk the toughest about power are extremely reluctant to see power operate in any institutional form; within their own organizations, they shun 'hierarchies' and formally structured relations of authority. What the preoccupation with power reflects, essentially, is a deep=seated, pervasive feeling of powerlessness.

Carey McWilliams

So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.

Donna Lynn Hope

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening-and he was among the victors!

Tom Wolfe

There's a girl calm people don't know about. It's a girl teen standstill. A motionless peace. It doesn't come from anywhere but inside us, and it only lasts for a few years. It's born from being a not woman yet. It's free flowing and invisible. It's the eye of the violent storm you call my teenage daughter. In this place we are undisturbed by all the moronic things you think about us. Our voices like rain falling. We are serene. Smooth. With more perfect hair and skin than you will ever again know. Daughters of Eve.

Lidia Yuknavitch

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

Just because you have power, doesn't mean you should use it, especially for the wrong reasons.

When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.

D'Andre Lampkin

You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.

Wallace D. Wattles

Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a really deep and formidable problem; there was no one else who could command such a combination of insight, technique and power.

Henry Hallett Dale

The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.

Michael Bassey Johnson

When a man is on the road to power he buys everyone a drink. Once elected he tries to close the saloons.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

The strong survive.

It is strange how love is a source for power––can spur the desire to fight to the death, or to fight back from something that seems like death for long enough to write a coherent note––but also of weakness.

In the midst of wanting to be powerful, I found a weakness.

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