Power Sayings & Quotes
These power sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. - John Anster
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power. - Bertrand Russell
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' - Abigail Adams
To do nothing is in everyone's power. - Samuel Johnson
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. - Blaise Pascal
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. - Edmund Burke
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. - Benjamin Disraeli
Eulogy: Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. - Peter F. Drucker