Power Quote by Vivian Swift

“In countries of more advanced civilisation and of a more insurrectionary spirit, the public, accustomed to expect everything to be done for them by…

— John Stuart Mill

“Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose.”

— Bryant McGill

[On power:] Some people really have almost a disdain for that word. They feel it is alien to conscience. Power for power's sake, no.…

— Elizabeth Dole

You can't force people in the country to assume power.

— Kirron Kher

“And that brings me to my definition of power, which is simply this: the capacity to make others do what you would have them…

— Eric Liu

Power without authority is tyranny.

— Jacques Maritain

“Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the domination of far-flung territories with heterogeneous populations and for a policy of oppression. Its efficiency is…

— Hannah Arendt

“Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The…

— Emily Thorne

France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever.…

— Jarvis Cocker

“It's easy not to abuse your power when you don't actually have any power.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“We can understand an attempt to ignore power as being just for the right of the people when conditions demand it. It's a very…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers-that-be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers-that-ought-to-be”

— James Russell Lowell