Power Quotes - Page 19

• Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Intelligence

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• Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

  Mason Cooley

  Children, Innocence, Innocent

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• The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

  John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

  Truth, Hypocrisy, Political

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• In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Powerful, War, Book

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• When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Science, Creation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.165

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• It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Criticism, Speech, Realizing

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• Helplessness is a mighty power.

  Mason Cooley

  Weakness, Helplessness

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• It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Health, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Men, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.363

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• The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

  J. G. Holland

  Character, Two, Hammers

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• Power's twin is responsibility.

  Willa Gibbs

  Responsibility, Twins

  WILLA GIBBS (1954). “THE TWELFTH PHYSICIAN”

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• The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

  A. D. Gordon

  Important, Eternity, Creatures

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• Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Art, Used, Dose

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• That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.

  Mary Deasy

  People, Way, Use

  Mary Deasy (1955). “The Boy who Made Good”

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• the possession of power brings on madness.

  Ariana Franklin

  Madness, Possession

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• To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.

  Lynda Obst

  Powerful, Distance, Player

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• Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

  Lynda Obst

  Information, Tents, Verbs

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• The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.

  Kathleen Brown

  Men, Order, Differences

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• power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Passion, Human Nature, Humans

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• The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

  Helen Caldicott

  Country, Lying, Government

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.236, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

  Mason Cooley

  Nature, Gun, Men

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• The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rose, Germany, Gains

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• If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

  Mason Cooley

  Hem, Influence, Constraints

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• Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.

  Mason Cooley

  Law, Issues, May

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• Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

  Mason Cooley

  God, Virtue, Martyr

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