Power Quotes

15857 Power quotes by 6592 unique authors

The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at… — Thomas Jefferson
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity… — Charles Horton Cooley
No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused those men to… — Charles Colson
Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that… — Thomas Brooks
We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be… — Mao Zedong
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what… — Aristotle
Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all… — Fred Hoyle
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought… — Zhuangzi
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up,… — Charles Darwin
Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine. — Joel Osteen
The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is… — Joseph Story
When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I… — Martin Luther
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all… — Thomas Paine
Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare him to become… — Rajneesh
All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If… — Rajneesh
The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the true face of God, who… — Pope Benedict XVI
All power is God`s power; we are only vehicles. He pulsates in our hearts. He breathes through us. He sings a thousand and one songs… — Rajneesh
... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our… — John Stuart Mill
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in… — George MacDonald
Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even in a beggar who has… — Rajneesh
You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you want to attain… — Rajneesh
Will power is nothing but another name of ego power. A man of wisdom has no will, just as he has no mind - because… — Rajneesh
There is nothing in existence available without payment. If you want to know yourself, you will have to drop all false identities. They are your… — Rajneesh

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