Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. Thomas J. Watson
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. Colin Powell
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated? Robert Plant
Knowledge and human power are synonymous. Francis Bacon
The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. James Madison
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. Robin Morgan
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. Irving Berlin
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. Richard Dawkins
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. Thomas Huxley
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. Cornelius Nepos
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. John Stuart Mill
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. James A. Baldwin
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. Virginia Woolf
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Samuel Johnson
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. Samuel Johnson
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. Samuel Johnson
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. Samuel Johnson
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement. Stephen King