Quotes About Power

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.

They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

The first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington. It's completely out of control. We Republicans came to power to change government, and government changed us.

Death from sin no power can separate.

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

Content is an obstacle to the exercise of power.

Order and system are nobler things than power.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.

I experience God as the power of love.

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.

I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power?... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'