Quotes About Power

I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

They say that knowledge is power. I believe that is only partially true. Knowledge is power only if your Wise Self interprets how it relates to you.

The world is crazy about amassing guns, bombs and wealth of humongous proportions, but it will not give knowledge a second glance!

The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth.

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

Books and knowledge are the two most powerful drugs.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.

Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

The sky cannot have two suns.

Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

A lion never roars after a kill.

If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership!