Quotes about Power
Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.
— Robin Sharma
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
— Samuel Johnson
Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.
— Samuel Johnson
We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
— Shane Claiborne
Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.
— Simon Sinek
He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.
— Thomas Paine
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
— William Hazlitt