Will To Power Quotes

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

Sure to prove indispensable for the study of Black Power.

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.

Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today.

It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.

Never underestimate the power of a well-placed apostrophe.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

Every single American has a voice and ... it ought to be heard in the halls of power every day.

Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.

Reserved as he [Confucius] was about the supernatural, he was not without it; somewhere in the universe there was a power that was on the side of right.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

The love of power excludes all others.

One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

The only energy that has any power in your life is the gift of breath from God.

You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Power without authority is tyranny.

I do everything in my power to get myself to a 100% so I can perform to my potential... that's all I can ask for.

Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.

Each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the power to bring about peace.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.