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Quotes About Power

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
~ Plato
Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred.
~ Yehuda Berg
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
~ Thomas Paine
Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
~ Henry Kissinger
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
~ Thomas Sowell
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
~ Francoise Sagan
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.
~ N. Scott Momaday
There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.
~ Frederic Chopin
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
~ Che Guevara
It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
~ Edward Abbey
Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.
~ Rick Riordan
Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.
~ Bruce Lee
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.
~ Raila Odinga
The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
~ Pete Carroll
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
~ Immanuel Kant
As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.
~ Susan Jeffers
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
~ Thomas Jefferson
You're never given a dream without the power to make it true.
~ Richard Bach
Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.
~ Joseph Prince
With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
~ Rick Riordan