power quotes

“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

“The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. ”

— Julius Caesar

“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. ”

— Julius Caesar

“One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again. ”

— Jim Carrey

“'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. ”

— Johnny Depp