Quotes
Quotes about Power
That man does not properly understand the nature of sin, thanks to the blinding power of the devil, in no way mitigates the horror of the impact of sin on the pure radience of God
I love him because he is a human soul, and I regret that his pure humanity, which issued from the hand of a God in whom he does not believe, has been so foully sullied by the devils of greed and power which have clearly taken possession of him. I would like to purge him of those devils, but, in his perversity, he is happy to be possessed.
Knowledge is there for you to taste, and with that knowledge power
Rule is not directed towards the welfare of the ruled - rule is for power
In a free society, intellectuals are among the under-privileged. What they offer - as schoolteachers, university lecturers, writers - is not greatly wanted. If they threaten to withdraw their labour, nobody is going to be much disturbed. To refuse to publish a volume of free verse or take a class in structural linguistics - that's not like cutting off the power supplies or stopping the buses
A smile is a powerful weapon - you can even break ice with it.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however -Richard Bach
They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I now know that they mean money.
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose the ecstasy. It is better poetry. But you and all my neighbors agree that I always choose badly.
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
