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.

“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”

Daniel Webster

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“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

Benito Mussolini

“The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.”

Christopher Nolan

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

Paul Ryan

“In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.”

Jeff Goodell

“A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.”

Pierre Corneille

“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.”

Alexis Carrel

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

Margaret Thatcher

“When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.”

Rene Descartes

“Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.”

Hannah Arendt

“There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.”

Jackie Kennedy

“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

“To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.”

Baruch Spinoza

“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”

Charles de Montesquieu

“Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.”

Muhammad Iqbal

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