Quotes About Power

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

All political power is a trust.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.

I meditate So that I can inundate My entire being With the omnipotent Power of peace.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.