Power Quotes - page 11

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. (Arnold J. Toynbee)
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away. View quote
Emil Cioran
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. View quote
Steven Wright
Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied. View quote
Edward Said
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle. View quote
Marvin Minsky
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks. (John C. Calhoun)
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. View quote
William Penn
All empire is no more than power in trust. View quote
John Dryden
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. View quote
John Dryden
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions. View quote
Tacitus
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. View quote
Gloria Steinem
I don't want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I'm not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning. View quote
Temple Grandin
Say not 'a small event' Why 'small' Costs it more pain that this ye call A 'great event' should come to pass From that Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed. View quote
Robert Browning
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point This can be done. (Abraham Maslow)
You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them. View quote
Amy Tan
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. View quote
Louis Sullivan
We have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. View quote
Jill Bolte Taylor
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. View quote
Joan Didion