Quotes about Power
What is impossible with man is child's play with God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
— Malcolm X
How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
— Marcus Aurelius
I want to dominate the man's world.
— Marina Abramovic
Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.
— Napoleon Hill
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.
— Henry David Thoreau
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
— Henry Ward Beecher
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
— Herman Melville
If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
— James Madison
The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.
— James Madison
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt