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Quotes about power
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He has the power who the majority believe in. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Personal power is the ability to take action. (Wiesenthal Simon)
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. (Wiesenthal Simon)
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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men. (Wiesenthal Simon)
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. (Wiesenthal Simon)
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. (Wiesenthal Simon)
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command. (Wiesenthal Simon)
He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. (Wiesenthal Simon)
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do. (Wiesenthal Simon)
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. (Wiesenthal Simon)
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