3725 Power Quotes for You to Enjoy

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it. Lincoln Steffens

Will Men Power Group Seek Abuse Gets Any

In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the Spanish and the French. They convinced themselves that their empire was different and benign because it rested on sea power and trade rather than on armies. Linda Colley

Old Power Past Roman Empire Britons Benign Rested About Rather Excess Empire Armies French Catholic Because Builders Trade Were Than Roman Different In The Past Spanish Themselves Convinced Sea

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together. Linus Torvalds

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. Louisa May Alcott

Great Genius Will Long Power Goodness Danger Possessing Finest Charm Spoils Conceit Talent Well Real Overlooked Modesty Much Should Using Even Satisfy Consciousness

I'd say people recognize me, but having children recognize me is the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you have the power to make the children's dreams come true, and it's better than anything else. Ludivine Sagnier

Dreams Best Me You People Better Power Else Say Recognize Having Having Children True Feel Come Like Make Very Than Children Anything Anything Else Special Suddenly Thing

To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking. Lysander Spooner

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever. Lysander Spooner

Character Obedience Law Result Will Power Whatever Synonymous Moral Would Moral Character Would-Be Physical Rather Having Combination Perhaps Terms Force Any Then United Compel Sufficient Fountain Necessarily

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations. Lysander Spooner

I believe that every leader has a right to implement his own policy. But when I see things that are done that are not right - abuse of power, wrong approaches, wrong strategies, making use of foreign consultants, including those discarded by other countries - I feel that I have to have my say. Mahathir Mohamad

Abuse Of Power Power Leader Own Believe Every Other Other Countries Approaches Say Those See Consultants Wrong Implement Feel Countries Abuse Discarded Policy Making Foreign His Done Use Strategies Including Right Things

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. Maimonides

I believe the gun has no power at all. Malala Yousafzai

Gun Power Believe

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence. Mary Astell

People Treat Power Tyrannical Insolence Most Greatest Get

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world. Mary Boykin Chesnut

World Men Power Unlimited Unlimited Power Brutal Over Same

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. Mary J. Blige

Music Strength Me You People Song Power Down Live Give Know Renewed Makes How Caught How Many Times Been Times Times People Die Just Want Wanted Depressed Them Then Us Special Helped Many Ear

Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded. Max Heindel

Power Earned Favor Has-Been Promotion Rise Given More Mystic Fired Advancement Masonry Himself Till Been Than Pistol Any Candidate Dependent Stored Cannot Loaded