There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Marcus Aurelius

Words derive their power from the original word.
Meister Eckhart

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Patrick Henry

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass

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

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
Clint Eastwood

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Plutarch