Power Quotes - page 2

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. (George Meredith)
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. View quote
Chanakya
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. View quote
John Adams
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. View quote
William Henry Harrison
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. View quote
Edmund Burke
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. View quote
David Brin
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. View quote
Václav Havel
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. View quote
Jim Morrison
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. (Hannah Arendt)
The main force in man - is the power of the spirit. View quote
Yuri Gagarin
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. View quote
Siegbert Tarrasch
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. View quote
Indira Gandhi
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. View quote
Horace Mann
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. View quote
James Madison
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. View quote
Andrew Jackson
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. View quote
Thomas Paine
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. View quote
William Hazlitt
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity. (George Soros)
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. View quote
George Soros
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. View quote
George C. Marshall
The power of the people and the power of reason are one. View quote
Georg Büchner
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. View quote
Ezra Pound