power quotes

“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

“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. ”

— Victor Hugo

“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. ”

— Victor Hugo

“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”

— Victor Hugo

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”

— Ovid

“Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.”

— Ovid

“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube.”

— Erno Rubik

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. ”

— George Washington Bush

“The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest. ”

— George Washington Bush

“The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. ”

— George Washington Bush