Quotes on Power

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.

The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

A 'fair' fight between non-equals is not fair, and being blind to power is an implicit endorsement of the powerful.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained - then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.

Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.