Power Quotes - page 4

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. (Eric Hoffer)
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. View quote
Hannah Arendt
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. View quote
Thomas Szasz
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. View quote
Horatio Nelson
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. View quote
Nikola Tesla
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. View quote
Noam Chomsky
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. View quote
Albert Einstein
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? (Mary Wollstonecraft)
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. View quote
Groucho Marx
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. View quote
Cory Doctorow
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. View quote
James Madison
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. View quote
James Madison
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. View quote
Andrew Jackson
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. View quote
Martin Van Buren
...there is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. View quote
William Henry Harrison
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. (Thomas Paine)
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. View quote
George Soros
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. View quote
George Eliot
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals, is the means of his support, is the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville