With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. William Wordsworth on power
Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body. Devon Aoki on power
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. William James on power
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. Gilbert K. Chesterton on power
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. Samuel Johnson on power
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan on power
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms. Jiddu Krishnamurti on power
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung on power
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will. Alexander Hamilton on power
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. Erich Fromm on power
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward. Kenny Loggins on power
'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in. Hillary Clinton on power
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will. Alexander Hamilton on power
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. George Orwell on power
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Plutarch on power
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Aldous Huxley on power
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. Thomas Carlyle on power
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. Bertrand Russell on power
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. George Orwell on power
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. James Madison on power