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Power Quotes
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Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. (Quote by - Bible)
I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true. (Quote by - Vanessa Redgrave)
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic. (Quote by - Noah Webster)
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. (Quote by - Arnold Toynbee)
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy. (Quote by - Aristotle)
There is no knowledge that is not power. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. (Quote by - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn)
Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine, For of all powers the mightiest far art thou, Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven; Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld One thing--to undo what thou thyself hast ruled. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)