Power Quotes - page 7

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. (Bertrand Russell)
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. View quote
James A. Garfield
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. View quote
Václav Havel
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals. View quote
José Saramago
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. View quote
Anthony Robbins
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power. View quote
Malcolm X
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . (Anne Brontë)
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. View quote
Denis Diderot
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. View quote
Henry Adams
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. View quote
Lewis Mumford
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. View quote
Ralph Cudworth
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. View quote
Wendell Phillips
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. View quote
Havelock Ellis
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. View quote
Henri Matisse
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon)
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. View quote
Toni Morrison
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force ... is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. View quote
Pearl S. Buck