961 private quotes tagged power

“Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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

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“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.” — Ayn Rand

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“The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.” — Francis Bacon

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“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“Money: power at its most liquid.” — Mason Cooley

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“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” — George Washington

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“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” — James Madison

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“The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.” — James Madison

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“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.” — Bertrand Russell

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“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

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“The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.” — William Penn

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“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.” — Winston Churchill

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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” — James Madison

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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” — C. S. Lewis

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“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

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“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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