Power Quotes ( 30 - 40 of 100 )
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough read more
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we read more
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable read more
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
[Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere read more
Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
[Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam
Posse volunt.]
Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.
Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
