Quotes About Power

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

The only thing power respects, is power.

This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought

Power must never be trusted without a check.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.