Quotes on Power

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

The law always limits every power it gives.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.