Power Cannot Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

• Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains. — Herbert Spencer
• That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. — Charles Caleb Colton
• [I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney
• 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
• From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense… — Terry Eagleton
• A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God. — Pope Benedict XVI
• Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since… — E.C. Riegel
• To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are… — Sissela Bok
• You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by the earnest supplication… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
• Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated,… — Michel Foucault
• Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of words" One fashions… — Helen Steiner Rice
• How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit… — Maimonides
• The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it… — Milton Friedman
• Unless and until your Sahasrara is open, all the blessings of the Divine Power cannot come to you. — Nirmala Srivastava
• We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully. — Martin Buber
• If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney

Who Wrote These Power Cannot Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 17 Power Cannot Quotes as follows:

• 2 Power Cannot Quotes by Algernon Sidney
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Herbert Spencer
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Zhuangzi
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Terry Eagleton
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Pope Benedict XVI
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by E.C. Riegel
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Sissela Bok
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Thomas De Witt Talmage
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Michel Foucault
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Helen Steiner Rice
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Maimonides
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Milton Friedman
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Nirmala Srivastava
• 1 Power Cannot Quote by Martin Buber