Quotes About Power

Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.

The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.

More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.

The deepest reality you are aware of is the one from which you draw your power.

The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.

Where there's fear, there is power.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.