1,008 Quotes Regarding Power


War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington

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

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony Robbins

Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
Michael Jackson

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
Morihei Ueshiba

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Tony Robbins

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Thomas Paine

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac