Power Quotes - page 8

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. (Aldous Huxley)
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. View quote
Peter Drucker
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. View quote
René Descartes
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. View quote
C. S. Lewis
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. View quote
Albert Einstein
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world. View quote
Richard Eberhart
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. View quote
Ronald Reagan
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. View quote
Anna Sewell
Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy. View quote
Nicole Scherzinger
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. View quote
Penelope Lively
Money is power and power gives you choice. (Sam Rockwell)
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power. View quote
Ulrich Beck
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war. View quote
Arthur Henderson
One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps. View quote
Georg Groddeck