P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Power should only be wielded by those who would much prefer not to have it.”
“Power smelling of lilac and cedar and the first bits of green, swirled around me.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.”
“Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims”
“Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.”
“Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.”
Source: The Arrogance of Power
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.”
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.”
“Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.”
“Power that doesn't help the people, is not power but pandemic.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“Power that doesn't try to make the world better is worse than having no power.”
Source: Hearts of Stone
“Power thrills, consistency kills.”
“Power through paranoia - politics 101.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Power tires only those who do not have it.”
“Power to do good is the true and lawful act of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.”
Source: The Conduct of the Understanding. By J. Locke ... Essays ... By Lord Bacon. With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon
“Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way.”
“Power to people doesn't mean power, it means responsibility.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“Power to the Democrats is an entitlement, elections are a formality, and they should never lose. And especially to somebody like Donald Trump, who they think is a reprobate and a horrible guy.”
“Power to the peaceful!”
“Power to the people' can only
be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is
dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of
his daily life. If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than
power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an
undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before. In the last analysis, the people can never
have power until they disappear as a 'people.”
“Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.”
Source: God in the Dock
“Power to work is necessary for progress.”
“Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.”
“Power twitched at her fingertips. It was Samhain after all, and her power swelled within her, aching to be used. The magic that came with Samhain was different from the other dates like Ostara or Beltane. It was wilder, and it came with its own shadow. And with the old woods at her back, and the rolling fields before her, she was all but breathing the magic in. It seeped from the soil into her body and wound its way like deep green tendrils into her heart.”
Source: Best Hex Ever
“Power unfettered by wisdom and conscious control is dangerous.”
Source: Kurintor Nyusi
“Power unused is power useless.”
Source: No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power
“Power up from that pain to conquer the next summit of your life.”
“Power up your intelligence. Hit that creativity button.”
“Power was fundamentally an idiot who at all cost had to be restrained by a net of rules so basic and so clear that even he could be instructed in them before, in one of his rages, he tore down the house.”
“Power was gathering, swirling above them; a maelstorm of memories, emotion, and purpose.”
Source: Stealing Sacred Fire
“Power was my weakness and my temptation.”
“Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.”
“Power wears out those who do not have it.”
“Power wears out those who don't have it”
“Power which can be abused, will be abused.”
“Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.”
“Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.”
“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Power will take us beyond the gravity field of the imprint.”
“Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.”
“Power within
A wiser woman kin
I cannot give her
The proper word
She is worth so much more
She is the one that should be adored”
Source: The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013
“Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.”
“Power without abuse loses its charm.”
“Power without authority is tyranny.”
Source: Man and the State
“Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.”
Source: Healology
“Power without compassion -- *that's* the danger.”
Source: Scarlet Witch (2023) Annual #1
“Power without control is worthless." Acheron's favorite saying. At least it was Ash's pet phrase any time Nick got behind the wheel and laid into the accelerator.
"Damn it, Nick! You've got to learn to go slow and not rush off into traffic at warp ten, especially not when it's heading straight for you!" Acheron's oth favorite rant where he was concerned.”
Source: Inferno
“Power without guilt, love without doubt.”