Quotes About Power

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

A great book is like great evil.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

Great power involves great responsibility

The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.

I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Better to have small faith in a great God than to have great faith in a small god.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

I don't want to sound like I'm on dope, but that hour is a high; it's as good as you can feel. A wonderful, wonderful happiness, and great power.

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

Donald Trump places great faith in his son-in-law Jared Kushner.