Power Quotes - Page 20

• Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

  Mason Cooley

  Stupid, Communism, Marxism

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• The party out of office becomes the articulate one.

  Mason Cooley

  Party, Office

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• The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Waiting, Powerless

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• Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

  Mason Cooley

  Truth, Errors, Divided

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• Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way.

  Jane Wagner

  Impact, Small Gestures, Way

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• Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Men, Should

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.133, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall no longer be deterredby such abstractions as time and space, height and depth, weight and hardness, but shall indeed be the lord of creation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Men, Space

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Miscellanies (Annotated Edition)”, p.23, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Needs, Politics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.328, Modern Library

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• It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Lying, Men, Noble

  Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

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• Helplessness is a mighty power.

  Mason Cooley

  Weakness, Helplessness

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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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• How few writers can prostitute all their powers!

  E. M. Forster

  1936 Abinger Harvest,'Ronald Firbank'.

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• Living in intention through acceptance, responsibility, pro-active choice, and the willingness to be ordinary, will move fear aside and allow intuition to surface. All of those skills teach us to be inner focused and aware of who we are becoming. That is powerful. That changes lives.

  Rhonda Britten

  Powerful, Life Changing, Moving

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.139, Penguin

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• You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.

  Henry Adams

  Cutting, Artist, Men

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.523, Harvard University Press

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• I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.

  William Hurlbut

  Life, Jealous, Men

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• A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Political, Politics, Taste

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• We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for years and years, and that if the war power can be used in days of peace to treat all the wounds which war inflicts on our society, it may not only swallow up all other powers of Congress but largely obliterate the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments as well.

  William O. Douglas

  War, Years, May

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• Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Downfall

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• But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Truth, Believe, Fighting

  Abrams v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1919)

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• Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect conduct of the war and do not relate to the engagement of the war itself, the constitutional basis should be scrutinized with care. ... I would not be willing to hold that war powers may be indefinitely prolonged merely by keeping legally alive a state of war that had in fact ended. I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effects and consequences of war for if so they are permanent -- as permanent as the war debts.

  Robert H. Jackson

  War, Long, People

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• Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Abuse, Needs

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• There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Excess, Misery

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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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• Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Weapons, Calm, Aspect

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• I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

  John le Carre

  Truth, Thinking, Hands

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