Evil is not power, it is ignorance and misuse of good.
James AllenJudge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.
Gustave FlaubertEquality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de BalzacPower does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John SteinbeckIt is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew JacksonEvil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone WeilCourage allows the successful woman to fail, and learn powerful lessons from the failure, so that in the end she didn't fail at all.
Maya AngelouI believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers, by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.
John DeweyNo man deserves to be praised for his goodness who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth or an impotence of will.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAncient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
AristotlePoliticians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory or happiness.
AristotleThe first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John RuskinIf you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
Marcus AureliusWe have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl SaganHe that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel JohnsonPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick DouglassUnconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. KennedyOne without power does not mean lack of physical or mental strength.
Sai BabaIf we desire to avoid insult we must be able to repel it, if we desire to secure peace one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity it must be known that we are at all times ready for War.
George WashingtonMastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao TzuMoney is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Andrew JacksonConciliate a strong man by submission a wicked man by opposition and the one whose power is equal to yours by politeness or force.
ChanakyaI can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting but I cannot suffering as I am do without something which is greater than I am which is my life the power to create.
Vincent Van GoghBecause your own strength is unequal to the task do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man, but if anything is within the powers and province of man believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus AureliusThe world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
John F. KennedyThe constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George WashingtonLife is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
VoltaireHe who possesses intelligence is strong, how can the man that is unintelligent be powerful? The elephant of the forest, having lost his senses by intoxication, was tricked into a lake by a small rabbit.
ChanakyaAnyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
VoltaireGod our Creator has stored within our minds and personalities great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Abdul KalamI protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed I should instantly close with the offer.
Thomas HuxleyWar has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound, its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich NietzscheChristianity is not the faith of the complacent the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley Wilberforce Bonhoeffer John Paul the Second and Billy Graham. Each showed in their own way the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
Mitt RomneyPower is action, the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore de BalzacOh while I live to be the ruler of life not a slave to meet life as a powerful conqueror and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt WhitmanBe Silent yourself that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation wherever you happen to be. The less you talk the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity there will be increase in your power of discrimination too. Consequently you will give up individual discrimination . Because of this you will begin to consider the good of the world at large rather than your own individual welfare. You must cultivate such broad feelings from this young age itself.
Sai BabaAll things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich NietzscheA powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel ProustWe cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful just as strong just as well-funded.
Barack ObamaThe truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
VoltaireTime whose tooth gnaws away everything else is powerless against truth.
Thomas Huxley