Power Quotes - Page 10

• Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.

  Charlotte Charke

  Hands, Fool, Knaves

  Charlotte CHARKE (1826). “A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere.

  Michel Foucault

  "Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day". Book edited by Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon, 2001.

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

  William Henry Harrison

  Nature, Military, Exercise

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

  123 Copy quote

  Show source

• Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

  Abigail Adams

  Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Politics

  Letter to John Adams, 7 May 1776

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reality, Political, Perception

  93 Copy quote

• The first peace, which is the most important,
  is that which comes within the souls of people
  when they realize their relationship,
  their oneness with the universe and all its powers,
  and when they realize that at the center of the universe
  dwells the Great Spirit,
  and that this center is really everywhere,
  it is within each of us.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Relationship, Wisdom

  "The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux". Book by Black Elk and Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

  273 Copy quote

  Show source

• Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

  Stendhal

  Love Is, Firsts, Source

  Stendhal (1916). “On Love”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, Country, Democracies Have

  138 Copy quote

• The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Life, Inspire, Needs

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

  Alison Goodman

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Alison Goodman (2010). “Eon”, p.154, Penguin

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

  Eleanora Duse

  Summer, Nature, Moving

  95 Copy quote

• Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Character, Purpose

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.

  Vladimir Putin

  Honesty, Military, Responsibility

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the World Economic Forum, archive.premier.gov.ru. January 28, 2009.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

  111 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  282 Copy quote

• The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

  Rick Rubin

  Art, Nature, Creativity

  69 Copy quote

• Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Justify, Deserve

  9 Copy quote

• Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Feet, Matter, Able

  31 Copy quote

• Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

  Ayn Rand

  Strength, Men, Choices

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.604, Hamilton Books

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Energy, Fundamentals

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.4, Psychology Press

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Reality, Men, Historical

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2009). “The Federalist”, p.518, Harvard University Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do the thing and you will have the power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Acting, Action

  13 Copy quote

• There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Men, Giving

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Open Road Media

  14 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Libertarian Party, Community

  On Liberty ch. 1 (1859)

  159 Copy quote

  Show source

• But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

  Alan Watts

  Powerful, Negative, Empty

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

  9 Copy quote

  Show source