Quotes about Power
The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.
- Bob Marley
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
- Philip Yancey
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
- Ayn Rand
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
- John F. Kennedy
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
- Frank Herbert
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
- Toni Morrison
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
- Aristotle
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
- Frank Herbert