Quotes about Power
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
— Samuel Johnson
Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.
— Samuel Johnson
We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
— Shane Claiborne
Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.
— Simon Sinek
He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.
— Thomas Paine
Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.
— Tucker Max
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.
— William Hazlitt
Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.