1,008 Quotes Regarding Power


I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard Dawkins

Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. Clement Stone

What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell

Everything is generated through your own will power.
Ray Bradbury

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter Drucker

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy Graham

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
Theodore Bikel

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius Caesar

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William E. Gladstone

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
Louisa May Alcott

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor Adorno

He who has great power should use it lightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca