P Quotes
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“Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.”
Source: Ethical Ambition
“Power in the hands of the stupid is often a dangerous thing. Hitler proved it.”
“Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.”
“Power interrupts. Uninterruptible power interrupts absolutely.”
“Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.”
“Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.”
“Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.”
“Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to our relationships, even determine how much we let ourselves liberate and express aspects of the self. More than party registration, more than our purported philosophy or ideology, personal power defines our politics.”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
“Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.”
“Power is a curious thing. Who lives, Who dies. Power resides where men believe it resides. It is a trick, A shadow on the wall.”
“Power is a dangerous drug, a thirst that is never quenched. It promises but it takes more than it gives. Friends are divided by it, wars are fought over it, churches split because of it, and Satan will tempt you to sell your soul for it.”
Source: FINDING MY LOST VOICE: By Acting Justly, Loving Kindness and Walking Humbly with God
“Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)
“Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.”
“Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.”
“Power is a dynamic between human agency (the way individuals influence the world) and social structures (structures of domination that determine to what degree individuals may influence the world). It can be coercive, repressive, or negative; it can also be a productive force.”
“Power is a fickle mistress, easy to seduce, but even easier to lose. That's how it works. One moment she is your closest confidant, whispering the secrets of the universe into your ear; the next, she is your vilest oppressor—and once her ears close to your plights you are well and truly screwed.”
Source: Bleeds My Desire
“Power is a game, a great game without dimension or limit. When the plague winds wax, the fire of war comes and burns the festering corpses from the fields. When excess reaches perfection, wild chance comes to spoil it. On and on in an endless dance.”
Source: Slaves to Darkness
“Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person”
“Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.”
“Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.”
“Power is a test - the test - of character.”
Source: Father Struck It Rich
“Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you”
“Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.”
“Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.”
Source: War and Peace
“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
“Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.”
“Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.”
“Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.”
“Power is America's last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is to talk about power.”
“Power is an ill-tempered and treacherous mistress. She corrupts even the incorruptible. If you value your freedoms you will have to bind her and keep her from your lands and leaders, because she will seize their minds and seduce their consciences until they give in to her insatiable appetite.”
“Power is an illusion. Power exists because we believe it does. Kings and Queens—and yes, Princes—have power because we grant it to them.”
Source: Sword Catcher
“Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.”
“Power is as power does.”
“Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.”
“Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.”
“Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.”
“Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.”
Source: Miles Errant
“Power is brilliant
Beauty is madness
Obsession is addiction
Perfection is suicidal,
I was born beyond the limits of an ordinary being. So honey make use of it I exist therefore to celebrate or to die.”
“Power is concentrated. The general policy is exactly the way that Adam Smith described it: it's designed for the benefit of its principal architects, the powerful. It serves "the vile maxim of the masters: all for ourselves and nothing for anyone else". Those are the basic rules of the world.”
“Power is confidence. The confidence to deliver your answer when you're in a board meeting is what will allow you to move up faster. The confidence to be yourself in front of people creates a separation.”
“Power is confusing for us, perhaps even terrifying, because our relationship with it had an unfortunate beginning. Someone in a position of power over us used and abused us…It seems as if power were something to be wielded, always at someone’s expense, usually our own.”
Source: Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
“Power is dangerous unless you have humility.”
“Power is defined as an ability to do qualitative work with a quantitative passion, backed by a compelling conviction, directed by a propelling purpose, fulfilling a divine destiny. That is power!”
Source: Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
“Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.”
“Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.”
“Power is emotionless; yet one with personal power will experience more emotions.”
“Power is energy. It's math. It's figures that go back and forth.”
Source: Becoming the Conjurer
“Power is everywhere. Even in religions, there are still power struggles. Leaders are also everywhere, regardless of the size of your group.”