P Quotes
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“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.”
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.”
Source: Eldest
“Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.”
Source: New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country
“Power without purity is dangerous.”
“Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”
“Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.”
Source: Dream of Scipio
“Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.”
“Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.”
Source: The Story of an African Farm
“Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.”
Source: The Story of an African Farm
“Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.”
“Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.”
“Power's not what the Constitution was about.”
“Power's twin is responsibility.”
Source: THE TWELFTH PHYSICIAN
“Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd's flock.”
“power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.”
“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.”
Source: On Love
“Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.”
“Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.”
“Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.”
“Power, as it is, has a whole apparatus operating that goes about cutting down, closing doors, so that protests, exercises, platforms, and organizations, such as the Zapatistas, can't grow further in the barrio.”
“Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.”
“Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.”
“Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.”
Source: War and Peace
“Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.”
Source: THE DIALECTIC OF SEX
“Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.”
“Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.”
Source: Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke
“Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.”
“Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.”
Source: The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide
“Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being, craving power, destroying anything that stands in their way.”
“Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.”
“Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.”
“Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.”
“Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.”
Source: Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
“Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans. Chaos may settle; flames may die; worlds may rise and fall. But true things will remain so, and will never fail to guide you to your goals.”
Source: Here, There Be Dragons
“Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.”
“Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.”
Source: A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait
“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”
Source: I Know This Much Is True
“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Power-over is amoral. Power-to is responsibility.”
Source: No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power
“Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.”
“Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.”
Source: Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding
“Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946
“Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.”
Source: Reckless
“Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.”
“Power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous military and police forces, strategic communications, and more of these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success.”