POWER QUOTES IV
quotations about power
Power revealed is power sacrificed.... The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO & CHUCK HOGAN
The Fall
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
HONORE DE BALZAC
Eugénie Grandet
That power is in vain which is never in use.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
The History of Sexuality
The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical.
JOHN ADAMS
letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 13, 1815
That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price.
KELLEY ARMSTRONG
The Summoning
Men in power are always interested in greater power.
DAN BROWN
The Lost Symbol
So long as a man's power, that is, his capacity to realize what he has in mind, is bound to the goal, to the work, to the calling, it is, considered in itself, neither good nor evil, it is only a suitable or unsuitable instrument. But as soon as this bond with the goal is broken off or loosened, and the man ceases to think of power as the capacity to do something, but thinks of it as a possession, that is, thinks of power in itself, then his power, being cut off and self-satisfied, is evil; it is power withdrawn from responsibility, power which betrays the spirit, power in itself.
MARTIN BUBER
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
ROSEANNE BARR
attributed, Women Know Everything!
No one man should have all that power.
KANYE O. WEST
"Power"
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER
U. S. News & World Report, vol. 104
Many have turned an eager ear to the siren call of power--and found themselves drowning instead.
ROY THOMAS & CLARA NOTO
Red Sonja, vol. 1, no. 3
Wealth was the short beer of existence. Power was champagne.
STEPHEN KING
Under the Dome
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Crime and Punishment
Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.
SIR J. STEPHEN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Narcissus in Chains
To come under siege ... was the inevitable fate of power.
FRANK HERBERT
Dune Messiah
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
ANONYMOUS
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
NOAM CHOMSKY
Imperial Ambitions
Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to President Reed, July 4, 1780