Quotes on Power

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that we will ever see, and using it to replace our dwindling supplies of fossil fuels.

Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.