Power Quotes - page 5

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. (Laura Welch Bush)
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. View quote
Simone Weil
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. View quote
Montesquieu
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. View quote
Bruce Lee
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. View quote
Edmund Burke
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. View quote
Washington Irving
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. (Ambrose Bierce)
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. View quote
Emil Cioran
Power without abuse loses its charm. View quote
Paul Valéry
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges. View quote
Buenaventura Durruti
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. View quote
Samuel Adams
This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. View quote
John Goodman
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. View quote
Alice Walker
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. View quote
Willa Cather
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. (George Washington)
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. View quote
Gloria Steinem
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. View quote
Amy Tan
Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power? View quote
Andrea Dworkin