Category: Quotes About Power

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. -Voltaire

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. -Felix Frankfurter

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. -Ralph Cudworth

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. -Henry A. Wallace

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. -George Washington

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. -Aldous Huxley

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. -Tony Robbins

Every crisis offers you extra desired power. -William Moulton Marston

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. -Samuel Johnson

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. -Pope Paul VI

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. -Aristotle

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. -John Stuart Mill

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. -John Adams

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. -Milan Kundera

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. -Woodrow Wilson

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. -Robin Morgan

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. -Andrew Jackson

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. -Dean Koontz

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day. -Julianna Margulies