Quotes about Power
Power always brings with it responsibility.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
- Thomas Jefferson
Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the better it off it is for the American people.
- George W. Bush
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.
- George Washington
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
- Gloria Steinem
Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.
- Gloria Steinem
Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.
- Thomas Merton
How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.
- Graham Greene
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.
- Samuel Johnson
Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.
- John Maxwell
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.
- John Calvin