Quotes about power

"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."

Steinem, Gloria on power   

"Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power."

Steinem, Gloria on power   

"Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on power   

"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent."

Swift, Jonathan on power   

"A cock has great influence on his own dunghill."

Syrus, Publilius on power   

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on power
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"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs."

Thatcher, Margaret on power   

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

Thatcher, Margaret on power
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"I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver."

Thatcher, Margaret on power   

"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

Thatcher, Margaret on power
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"We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea."

Tillich, Paul on power   

"Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign."

Tilly on power   

"We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining."

Tilney, Dr. Frederick on power   

"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."

Udall, Stewart on power   

"Purchasing power is a license to purchase power."

Vaneigem, Raoul on power   

"Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart."

Vere, Sir Aubrey De on power   

"It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of"

Vidal, Gore on power   

"Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth"

Vizinczey, Stephen on power   

"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."

Walpole, Horace on power   

"The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either"

Weil, Simone on power   

"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."

Weil, Simone on power   

"Power in America today is control of the means of communication."

White, Theodore on power   

"What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you."

Wieder, Marcia on power   

"There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on power   

"With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things."

Wordsworth, William on power   

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

Zedong, Mao on power   

"When a man's willing and eager the god's join in."

Aeschylus on power
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"When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in."

Aeschylus on power
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"A man can do all things if he but wills them."

Alberti, Leon Battista on power   

"Will localizes us; thought universalizes us."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on power   

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"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on power
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"When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God."

Boehme, Jacob on power   

"Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still."

Carnegie, Dale on power
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"Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on."

Cecil, Richard on power   

"A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion."

Cicero, Marcus T. on power   

"Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will."

Cousins, Norman on power
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"Will cannot be quenched against its will."

Dante Alighieri on power   

"Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose."

Disraeli, Benjamin on power   

"What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter."

Drucker, Peter F. on power   

"The education of the will is the object of our existence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power