Power Quotes
Famous Quotes & Quotations About Power:
We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.
~ Billy Graham.
We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
~ Benjamin Franklin.
Why in moments of crisis do we ask God for strength and help? As cognitive beings, why would we ask something that may well be a figment of our imaginations for guidance? Why not search inside ourselves for the power to overcome? After all, we are strong enough to cause most of the catastrophes we need to endure.
~ Bill Schell.
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
~ Norman Mailer.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
~ Norman Vincent Peale.
Woman, a pleasing but a short-lived flower, Too soft for business and too weak for power: A wife in bondage, or neglected maid: Despised, if ugly: if she`s fair, betrayed.
~ Assad Kotaite.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
~ Edgar Allan Poe.
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
~ Stephen King, The Stand.
You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.
~ Kathleen Hanna.
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.
~ Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden, The Mission, Chapter 8.
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