Powered Quotes (page 7)

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• powerful
• insecurity
• power

Power has to be insecure to be responsive. Ralph Nader

• powerful
• power
• political

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. Honore de Balzac

• powerful
• power
• true

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

• powerful
• power
• little

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. Mikhail Bakunin

• tired
• powerful
• power

Power tires only those who do not have it. Giulio Andreotti

• powerful
• power
• wearing

Power wears out those who don't have it. Giulio Andreotti

• thinking you
• power
• thinking

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. Saul Alinsky

• view
• greatness
• thinking

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. John Adams

• powerful
• power god
• power

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. John Adams

• powerful
• power
• energy

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. Henry B. Adams

• powerful
• power
• been

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. Henry B. Adams

• touching
• real
• engineering

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform. Stephen Fry

• love
• justice
• sentimental

One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. Martin Luther King jr.

• words
• powerful
• understanding

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. Leo Tolstoy

• book
• power corrupts
• power

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. Robert Caro