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.

“My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.”

Sheryl Sandberg

“You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.”

Black Elk

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

Jackie Kennedy

“I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.”

Jack Kemp

“Power without abuse loses its charm.”

Paul Valery

“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.”

Jean Rostand

“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.”

George Eliot

“It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.”

Fareed Zakaria

“Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.”

Herbert Hoover

“I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.”

Jeremy Renner

“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”

Toni Morrison

“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”

Virginia Woolf

“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

“Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.”

Black Elk

“When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.”

Jeanne Moreau

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