Quotes About Power

For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts ... Albert Einstein

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.

The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is at the root of all true science. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible Universe is my idea of God.

Everything is energy.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.

The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.

Ownership of the means of production, on the other hand, carries a power to which the traditional safeguards of our political institutions are unequal.

In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.

The knowledge in not power, power is the imagination!!

La violenza può talvolta aver eliminato rapidamente gli ostacoli, ma non ha mai dimostrato di sapere creare alcunché

My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

I am predominantly critical concerning the activities, and especially the political activities, through history of the official clergy.

A un hombre interiormente libre, y escrupuloso, se le puede destruir, pero no se puede hacer de él ni un esclavo ni una herramienta ciega.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests'.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. " – Albert Einstein

Creo que la negativa al servicio militar por razones de conciencia, en caso que fiera hecha por cincuenta mil soldados, sería un poder irresistible. El individuo solo no puede obtener mucho. Aunque tampoco puede ser deseable que justamente los seres de más valor sean objeto de la destrucción por parte de esa maquinaria detrás de la cual se esconden tres grandes poderes: Imbecilidad, Temor y Codicia.

You will renounce all relations with me. You will make my meals and tidy my house. You are my servant and nothing more. [rules for his first wife Mileva Maric and his second wife Elsa Einstein]

Los sistemas autocráticos y opresivos degeneran muy pronto. Pues la violencia atrae a individuos de escasa moral y es ley de vida que a tiranos geniales sucedan verdaderos canallas.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. - Albert Einstein (Something just for me to keep in mind)

The freest people, like the freest man, is always in danger of re-lapsing into servitude. Wars are almost always fatal to Republics. They create tyrants, and consolidate their power.

there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the ugliness of the tyranny.

The unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.