Power Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• 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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• Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.

  John le Carre

  Secrecy, Distribution

  Interviewed with Pip Ayers, Daily Mail's Live Magazine, July 10, 2011.

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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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• How few writers can prostitute all their powers!

  E. M. Forster

  1936 Abinger Harvest,'Ronald Firbank'.

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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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• Greatness knows itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Honor, Knows

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. 74

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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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• 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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• The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Fighting, Assault Weapons

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• Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Victory, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

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• There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Ends, Inexplicable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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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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• But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

  George Edward Moore

  Shoes, Rounds, Wounds

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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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• 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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• 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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• Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Balance, Weight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Power, Wealth, Illusions”, p.28

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