1,008 Quotes Regarding Power


Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone Weil

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Simone Weil

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.
Isabel Allende

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
Salma Hayek

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
Robert Hall

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Theodor Adorno

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Stanley Kubrick

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann

People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.
Paul Ryan

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
George W. Bush

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift

Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Hannah Arendt

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
Sitting Bull

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
Patricia Cornwell

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
William Ellery Channing

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
Yoko Ono