676 quotes found
“Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”
“Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.”
“Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.”
“The powers that be are ordained of God.”
“He who has great power should use it lightly.”
“Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.”
“Business is in itself a power.”
“Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.”
“People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.”
“It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power o...”
“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.”
“I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.”
“Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.”
“Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that's church, Allah, or any sort of higher being - they all have a humbleness.”
“I do everything in my power to promote positivity however and whenever I can; and, constructively and softly, try to encourage tweens and teens that if they want to be part of a dialogue on my soci...”
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
“Prayer is man's greatest power!”
“I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.”
“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”
