Power Quotes - Page 21

• The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.

  Henry Adams

  Sky, Cities, Effort

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.487, Booklassic

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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 sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Education, Enjoy, Stimulants

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• We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

  William Rehnquist

  Government, Principles, Firsts

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• The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

  Joseph Stalin

  Powerful, Party, Politics

  Joseph Stalin (1975). “Works”

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• The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Tyrants, Giving

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• You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Thinking, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

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• Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Army, Thinking, Hands

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.509

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• Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Saint, Lips, Influence

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• Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.

  Philo

  Money, Men, Evil

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• God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, God, May

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• Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Men, Effort

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

  Tulsidas

  Powerful, Evil, Greed

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• The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do) of turning with the skid, of controlling ourselves by cooperating with ourselves.

  Alan Watts

  Love, Nature, Winning

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• Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wisdom, Military, War

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• In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

  Propertius

  Poetry, Poet, Verses

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

  Mason Cooley

  Law, Issues, May

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• Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Age, Curls

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them.

  Daya Mata

  Wisdom, Attitude, Lying

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• Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dark, Perception, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.208, Harvard University Press

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• He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Determination, Men, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.71, Harvard University Press

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• The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  School, Doors, Comedy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2738, Delphi Classics

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• Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

  James A. Garfield

  Rocks, Two, Perfect

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• An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.

  R. C. Sherriff

  Men, Secret, World

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• The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning.Life is flat, barren, zestless, if one can find one's lost vision nowhere.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Romantic, Loss, Romance

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.169, University of Virginia Press

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