Power quotes

“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.” Plato

“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.” Aristotle

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” Aristotle

“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.” Aristotle

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.” Aristotle

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.” Aristotle

“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.” Aristotle

“It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.” Aristotle

“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” Aristotle

“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.” Euripides

“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.” Salvador Dali

“If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” Stendhal

“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.” Stendhal

“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact” Honore de Balzac

“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.” Honore de Balzac

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.” Honore de Balzac

“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.” Honore de Balzac

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” Aldous Huxley

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.” Aldous Huxley

“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.” Aldous Huxley

“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.” Aldous Huxley

“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.” Arnold Schwarzenegger

“There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.” Sophocles