Quotes about Power

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.

There is only one power that determines the course of history, just as it determines the course of every individual life: the power of man's rational faculty—the power of ideas.

Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals -- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government -- that it is not a charter _for_ government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection _against_ the government.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

The world is ours, whenever we choose to claim it, by virtue and grace of the fact that ours is the Morality of Life.

HOWARD ROARK LAUGHED. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst in flight to the sky over motionless water. The water seemed immovable, the stone flowing. The stone had the stillness of one brief moment in battle when thrust meets thrust and the currents are held in a pause more dynamic than motion. The stone glowed, wet with sunrays.

Let's be gods. Let's be ugly.