What Is Power Quotes

O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.

Never undervalue the enemies, especially if they are stupid.

When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

Whence has come thy lasting power.

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.

We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.

The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

Use your power gently.

Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.

It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Keep your working power at its maximum.

In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.

Greatness knows itself.

O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye

Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.