Power Quotes - Page 33

• If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Powerful, Prey, Ifs

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• We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

  Albert Camus

  Answers, Able, Essentials

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• Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Stones, Anarchy, Absolutes

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• Force without reason falls of its own weight.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fall

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• Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Habit, Submit

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Danger, Terrible

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• Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Powerful

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.112, Lexington Books

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• Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Winning, Giving, Generous

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• The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Atheism, Age

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• The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Gun, Imagination

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• The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Leader, Enemy

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated”

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• The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Heart, Should, Wit

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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  Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Angel, Light

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• We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Loyalty, Exercise, Government

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• Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.

  Karl Marx

  Selfish, Men, Trying

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

  William Moulton Marston

  Challenges, Crisis, Extras

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• I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

  Benjamin F. Wade

  Travel, Men, Liberty

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• The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Recovery

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• There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.

  Dalai Lama

  Helping Others, Views, Support You

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

  William Booth

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Greatness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.

  Christopher Reeve

  Love, Perseverance, Powerful

  "Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research"by Clive N. Svendsen and ‎Allison D. Ebert, Vol. 1, (p. 104), 2008.

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• In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Letting Go, Mean, Fields

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• The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, States, Bases

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, second series”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then comparable to the signal strength noted on a receiver at a given locality. Intensity, like signal strength, will generally fall off with distance from the source; it will also depend on local conditions at the point of observation, and to some extent on the conditions along the path from source to that point.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Distance, Fall, Science

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• Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

  Clifford Stoll

  Science, Thinking, Data

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