power quotes

• You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing. (George Sand) [soul & body/society/power/willpower]
• We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. (William Maugham) [power]
• Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. (Bertrand Russell) [men/power/power]
• Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (Samuel Johnson) [power]
• No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. (Samuel Johnson) [government/power/mankind/willpower]
• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. (Samuel Johnson) [power/truth]
• To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. (Vladimir Nabokov) [type/power/power/art]
• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. (Robert Burton) [men/willpower/power]
• When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. (John Galsworthy) [pity/thing/power/life]
• Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. (Henry Kissinger) [power]
• Diplomacy... the art of restraining power. (Henry Kissinger) [diplomacy/art/power]
• It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. (Herbert Hoover) [paradox/dictator/power/speech]
• You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. (Richard Bach) [being/power]
• Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. (Andrew Carnegie) [power/control]
• That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [nature/thing/power]
• Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see ourselvs as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. (Robert Burns) [power]
• Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. (Vladimir Putin) [needs/state/power/tyranny]
• Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. (John Adams) [power/choice/power]
• Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. (John Adams) [power]
• Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. (Saul Alinsky) [power]
• Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. (Muhammad Ali) [reach/power]
• Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life! (Greg Anderson) [power/choice/change/experience]
• When we blame, we give away our power. (Greg Anderson) [give/power]
• Power tires only those who do not have it. (Giulio Andreotti) [power]
• I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. (Jeffrey Archer) [power]
• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. (Hannah Arendt) [punishment/power/punishment/crime]
• What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. ( Aristotle) [power/power]
• The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ( Aristotle) [knowledge/power]
• Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. (Sholem Asch) [power/remember/power/forget]
• A word after a word after a word is power. (Margaret Atwood) [power]
• You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. (Richard Bach) [being/power]

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