Quotes

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
-Audre Lorde

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

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

Never underestimate the power of the irate customer.
-Anonymous Author

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.
-Anonymous Author

The right is not created in the exercise of power, but if the right does not have the power to become established, then power will rule of itself.
-Kenneth Patton

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
-Roseanne Barr

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

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

Power is the ability not to have to please.
-Elizabeth Janeway

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-Henry Miller

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
-Frederick Douglass

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
-Meryl Streep

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
-Herbert Marcuse

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Trine

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
-Thomas Paine

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

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

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.
-Cesar Chavez

We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
-Anonymous Author

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
-Mahatma Gandhi

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
-Jimi Hendrix

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
-William E. Gladstone

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

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

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

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
-Blaise Pascal

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
-Honore de Balzac

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
-Gloria Steinem

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
-Jacob Bronowski

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
-Stephen Vincent Benet

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

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

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