Power Quotes

15857 Power quotes by 6592 unique authors

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more… — Alan Watts
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I want a world without war. War never works it just kills. I want my children to never have to have a close contact with… — Unknown Author
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange… — Winston Churchill
The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is… — Albert Einstein
The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down into the dust of death,… — John Nelson Darby
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit. — Bertrand Russell
The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief… — Thomas Jefferson
When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally. — Miyamoto Musashi
Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend. — Saadi
The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.... — John Marshall
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens… — James Madison
The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a… — Edward V. Long
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the… — Thomas Jefferson
Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least… — Alexander Hamilton
That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and… — Alexander Hamilton
It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never… — Alexander Hamilton
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its… — Albert J. Nock
Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of… — Charles Spurgeon
Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If… — Charles Spurgeon
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom… — Thomas Jefferson
You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State… — Albert J. Nock

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