Power quotes

“The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.” Charlie Chaplin

“It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.” Quintilian

“ Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” Robert Anson Heinlein

“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.” Albert Einstein

“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” Albert Einstein

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” Bruce Lee

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.” Bruce Lee

“ Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela

“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.” Leonardo da Vinci

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.” Jane Austen

“In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.” Jane Austen

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” Norman Vincent Peale

“When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.” Norman Vincent Peale

“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.” Thomas Jefferson

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.” Thomas Jefferson

“Power is not alluring to pure minds” Thomas Jefferson

“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” Franklin Roosevelt

“We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.” Franklin Roosevelt

“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.” Og Mandino

“The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.” Sigmund Freud

“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.” Sigmund Freud

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.” Abraham Lincoln

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln

“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.” Abraham Lincoln

“The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.” Stephen Hawking

“I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.” Stephen Hawking

“The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.” Horace

“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.” Plato

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.” Plato