Quotes About Power

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

All power is inherent in the people.

Know the Power that is Peace.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

Love is the most durable power in the world.

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.

While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.

Opportunity has power over all things.