961 private quotes tagged power

“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.” — Thomas Paine

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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” — George Orwell

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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.” — Bertrand Russell

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“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

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“Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.” — Bertrand Russell

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“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.” — Ronald Reagan

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

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“Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.” — John F. Kennedy

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“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.” — Albert Camus

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“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.” — Ronald Reagan

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“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.” — Aristotle

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“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.” — Epicurus

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“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.” — Steven Wright

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“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“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

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“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.” — Voltaire

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“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.” — Aristotle

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“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.” — Voltaire

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“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.” — John F. Kennedy

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