Quotes About Power

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

Change provides us with experiences that we convert to personal power.

Thank God for the white male power structure.

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

Evil has only the power we give it.

Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

A woman today knows that the power of her femininity is very important.