power Quotes (34)

“What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.”

“The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.”

“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”

“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.”

“Necessity, the tyrant's plea.”

“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.”

“Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.”

“I believe in benevolent dictatorship, provided I am the dictator.”

“He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.”

“Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.”

“Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.”

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

“Never underestimate the power of passion.”

“Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.”

“A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.”

“All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

“A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.”

“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”

“A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”

“An illiterate king is a crowned ass.”

“Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.”

“Fear of change perplexes monarchs.”

“All human power is a compound of time and patience.”

“Repression will provoke rebellion.”

“Power is not alluring to pure minds.”

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”

“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.”

“Courage is the power that shines in times of crisis.”

“Good words are a fine weapon.”

“A single word rules the world.”

“The tongue has no bones, but it can break bones.”

“Knowledge is power.”