Power Quotes

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species - man - acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
- Rachel Carson

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
- Freda Adler

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
- Anonymous Author

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
- Charles Dudley Warner

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
- Elie Wiesel

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
- Theodore Bikel

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
- William Plomer

A cult is a religion with no political power.
- Thomas Wolfe