Power Quotes

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. — Honore de Balzac
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. — Honore de Balzac
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those… — Albert Bandura
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. — Henry Adams
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. — Henry Adams
A friend in power is a friend lost. — Henry Adams
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. — Henry Adams
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. — Amelia Barr
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. — Roseanne Barr
'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking. — Roseanne Barr
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. — John Adams
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger… — John Adams
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's… — Drew Barrymore
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a… — Roland Barthes
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant. — Joe Barton
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone. — Abu Bakar Bashir
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority… — Samuel Adams
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of… — Jean Baudrillard
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's… — Gary Bauer
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet:… — Scott Adams

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