Power Quotes

Power reveals character. These quotes explore authority, influence, control, and the recurring lesson of history that power is dangerous precisely because it feels so good to the person who has it.

“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.”

Steven Wright

More Power Quotes

“I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.”

Noam Chomsky

“The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.”

William Hazlitt

“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.”

Hannah Arendt

“The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.”

Jon Meacham

“To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power.”

George MacDonald

“Words derive their power from the original word.”

Meister Eckhart

“Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.”

Andrew Jackson

“And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.”

Paul Ryan

“Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!”

Jane Siberry

“The only real power comes out of a long rifle.”

Joseph Stalin

“I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.”

James Lovelock

“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.”

Andrew Carnegie

“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.”

Noam Chomsky

“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”

John Adams

“The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.”

Wilson Mizner

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