Power Quotes

The world needs a stronger and more active Russia to accomplish the international balance which the people of the world are seeking.

Saddam Hussein

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Aesop

Only He who has the power to punish can pardon.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

Never underestimate the power of a million amateurs with keys to the factory.

Chris Anderson

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

Anacharsis

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle

One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

Durante degli Alighieri

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

Muhammad Ali

One who comes into power often oppresses.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

When I feel angry with a person how and when should I satisfy my anger, whether at a time when I am not in a position to retaliate and people may advise me to bear patiently or when I have power to punish and I forgive.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.

Wystan Hugh Auden

When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee

When we have passed beyond willings, then we shall have Power. Effort was the helper; Effort is the bar.

Sri Aurobindo

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

Bryant McGill

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

Bryant McGill

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Honor de Balzac

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Honor de Balzac

You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. And it is incumbent upon you to use that power--not only for yourself, but for everyone else around you.

Jennifer Beals

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

Charles Austin Beard

Indignant Man resumes the shaft he gave, Disarms the tyrant, and unbinds the slave, Displays the unclad skeleton of kings, Spectres of power, and serpents without stings.

Joel Barlow

I am aware of the frailty of man, I think about the power of fortune, and I know that all our actions are at the mercy of a thousand vicissitudes.

Scipio Africanus

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Aesop

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