Power Quotes

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Same, Cannot, Far

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie

Yourself, Control, Secret

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eric Hoffer

Future, Shape, Predict

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

True, Person, Gun

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Aneurin Bevan

Give, Away, Able

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Aeschylus

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
Barney Frank

Decision, Decisions, Economic

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin Toffler

Knowledge, Democratic, Source

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks

Equal, Pray, Tasks

Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus

Fear, Powerless, Excessive

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Friedrich Schiller

Rhetoric, Persuasive

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
Arnold J. Toynbee

God, Whether, Decide

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese

Strength, Single, Cannot

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
Richard J. Daley

Humility, Dangerous, Unless

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon

Start, Whole, Empathy

I cured with the power that came through me.
Black Elk

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams

Hard, Broken, Arbitrary

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza

Ambition, Desire

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
Denis Diderot

Long, Him, Violence

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
Georg Buchner

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Don DeLillo

Violence, Open, Theater

The greatest power is often simple patience.
E. Joseph Cossman

Patience, Simple, Greatest

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Genius, Expressing

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Don DeLillo

Secret, Furthering, Largely

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
Pierre Corneille

Husband, True, Father

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