Quotessence
Home / Topics / Power Quotes

Power Quotes

Browse 6152 quotes about Power.

Related topics

MenIfsPeoplePowerfulPoliticsWorldPoliticalInspirationalGovernmentWayKnowsMayThinkingForceShouldUseLifeWantHumansGivingStatesAuthorityLoveDoeExerciseMeanMindNeedsAbilityHandsPersonsKindLibertyActionLeadershipLiteratureLawResponsibilityMotivationalWisdomWarMatterStrongAbsolutesHeartMadeBelieveLyingStrengthWill PowerEnergyFeelsHas BeensInfluenceLongNationsPurposeReasonSelfWellsAbleCountryDesireEndsEvilFreedomSuccessTwoEnoughFearFirstsPower CorruptsSpiritUsedDemocracyIndividualManagementRealityTryingAbsolute PowerBusinessChangeDoneIdeasLooksMost PowerfulNatureOrderScienceWeaknessCharacterFormGivenJusticePoliticianTimeTyrannyWeakWiseAmericamore

Power Quotes

“Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects.”

ShouldTryingBodyDesireAsksEnergyForceProcessLevelsPowerSubjectsMaterialsBehaviorConstitutionInstanceEtcGesturesOrganismsMultiplicitySubjectionSubjugation
Author:Michel Foucault
Create image

“We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and faith in our strength are bound to bring us success. There should be no place for despondency. The crisis can and must be fought by uniting our intellectual, spiritual and material resources.”

ShouldHardSpiritualValuesResponsibilityMoralHistoryPowerSupportProgressHonestyMaterialsHard WorkCivilizationIntellectualResourcesEconomicsCrisisBoundsDebtSocialismTaxationMoral ValuesUnitingDespondency
Author:Vladimir Putin
Create image

“Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.”

IfsShouldMindAbleFormPurposeCertainDestinyPowerAssumingCreatorGuidesOur DestinyYour DestinyConstructiveTangibleWill PowerPower Of The MindPower Of ThoughtControllers
Book:The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness
Create image

“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

LoveShouldSelfGodWisdomHandsChristianLawFaithBeliefLeftNaturalReligiousChanceLordPowerFateUnderstoodAnd LoveUniversalAbsolutesInfiniteBlindAffairChristian InspirationalDoctrineAlternativesRejectionHolinessRejectsTrust In GodConsideringSovereigntyTheologianComfortingCommitment To GodNatural LawReassuringMighty GodGod Is In ControlIrrevocableShort SightedSovereignty Of GodInfinite Power
Book:The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]
Create image

“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.”

WorldShouldBelievePersonsCountryHomeGovernmentCarePoliticalI BelieveWealthTalkingLeaderPowerPoliticianProtectUniversalI Believe InActivismAround The WorldUsaHospitalsOverwhelmingHomelessDistributionCiaSingleMedicareAssassinationPolitical LeadersLeftistsOligarchyProtectionismRedistribution Of Wealth
Author:Abbie Hoffman
Create image

“Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect conduct of the war and do not relate to the engagement of the war itself, the constitutional basis should be scrutinized with care. ... I would not be willing to hold that war powers may be indefinitely prolonged merely by keeping legally alive a state of war that had in fact ended. I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effects and consequences of war for if so they are permanent -- as permanent as the war debts.”

PeopleIfsShouldMayLongWarStatesFactsCareLastsLibertyAcceptingPowerEconomyAliveEffectsWillingConsequenceEconomicsArgumentBasesConstitutionPropertyDebtRelatePermanentEngagement
Author:Robert H. Jackson
Create image

“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.”

IfsMenShouldMaySoulRunningEvilWaterBornPowerAtheismShould HavePositive AtheismFountainStagnantDamsMarshes
Book:The Story of an African Farm
Create image

“The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of the highest powers, the highest something in the universe, in whichever way we look at it... This is the charm of Study from Nature itself; she brings us back to absolute truth wherever we wander.”

WayShouldMindLooksScienceUniverseNaturePowerStudyHard WorkHighestAbsolutesWanderCharmLowestIntercourseTriflesAbsolute Truth
Author:Louis Agassiz
Create image

“The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.”

PeopleIfsGivingShouldMayMadeStatesPowerGunConstitutionBlindCongressPursuitConstructionAmendmentsRestraintGun ControlPretenseLegislatureSelf DefenseProhibitionSecond AmendmentRight To Bear ArmsBearing ArmsClausesRights And FreedomsFounding Fathers Gun2 AmendmentFounding Fathers Second AmendmentDisarmingState LegislaturesPatriotic Gun
Author:William Rawle
Create image

“If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.”

IfsWayShouldWellsFriendshipBehindsPowerShareIllusionConcernCatImpressionWell BeingAssociationPartnershipFoxesTigersBoastDeep Friendship
Book:Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life
Create image

“In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.”

PeopleShouldPartyPowerShould HaveMajorityExperimentsSufficientMinoritiesConsentGoverningCoercionOutrageMajority And Minority
Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
Create image

“Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.”

PeopleShouldPoliticsAcceptingPowerPoliticianGratefulProfoundBurdenRevengePassingPassingsContemptBe GratefulCorpses
Author:Jean Baudrillard
Create image

“One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.”

WayShouldMeanImportantForceNaturalPowerHarmonyImportant ThingsSpeedOppositionSpontaneousStrainFlexibility
Book:Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art
Create image

“The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.”

MenShouldStrongPowerBuildingLowsTrainingWeightAthleteSpeedMusclesMartial ArtsCombatAttributesChasingFlexibilityTruckRabbitsBullsStrong ManColossalWeight TrainingMatadors
Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Create image

“The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.”

MenShouldFirstsWellsPoliticalFreedomLibertyPowerSocietyPoliticianSafetyWell BeingGrantsAtomsRulersIndispensableMaxims
Book:Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe
Create image