Power Quotes and Sayings - Page 3
Knowledge is power,
Understanding is using it,
Wisdom is controlling it,
Magic is knowing how.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
You have the power to do anything
If you want to see how much power a person has, tell him what he can’t have or do.
The greatest strength of a man is when he has nothing.
A stroke of pen overcome the power of a battlion army
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Be a reason for someone’s happiness,not just part of it and be a part of someone’s sadness,never be the reason for it.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible.
- David Brin
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
You gain power by pretending to be weak.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
- Blaise Pascal
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- Thomas Jefferson
Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don’t.
- Oskar Shindler
You only have power over people as 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.
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power.
- Malcolm X
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
- John Lehman
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
- Plato
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
- Henrik Ibsen