Quotes
Quotes about Power
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new.
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the rights of the people by the gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own powers. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power, not the increase of it.
