Quotes on Power

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

All political power is a trust.

Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

All power is His and within His command.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.