Power Quotes

Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.

25234 quotes

"Language is power."
Samuel Beckett
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"Power consists in one man's will imposing itself on another's."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Ambition in excess becomes destructive."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
F
"Power wielded without compassion becomes tyranny."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I
"Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches."
Ivan Turgenev
M
"Power without principle is tyranny; principle without power is futility."
Mikhail Lermontov
J
"He do not know what power is at all if he do not know that it is power to say No."
James Joyce
F
"The powerful always believe in their own righteousness."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I
"Even the most insignificant person can influence the future."
Ivan Turgenev
W
"Power without love is tyranny."
William Butler Yeats
"Power lies in understanding yourself."
Samuel Beckett
"Power without purpose is empty."
Samuel Beckett
O
"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
Oscar Wilde
O
"I can make a man famous in three columns of a newspaper."
Oscar Wilde
L
"The only real power comes from within, from your own conviction and courage."
Leo Tolstoy
L
"Power over others is fleeting; power over oneself is eternal."
Leo Tolstoy
J
"The power to change begins with the power to imagine."
James Joyce
A
"The true power is in knowing when not to use power."
Anton Chekhov
G
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
George Bernard Shaw
W
"Desire is the great law of the universe; it is the force through which things happen."
William Butler Yeats
W
"Every person carries within them the capacity for both creation and destruction."
William Butler Yeats
T
"Power without wisdom is dangerous."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Power is the ability to make a difference."
Thomas Hardy
O
"The privilege of the great is to watch suffering."
Oscar Wilde
J
"Power lies in the ability to transform experience into art."
James Joyce
L
"Power lies not in dominion but in service."
Leo Tolstoy
T
"A gaze is not in itself power unless backed by opinion."
Thomas Hardy
T
"There is no greater power than the power of an idea."
Thomas Hardy
A
"True power lies in restraint, not force."
Anne Brontë
A
"Power corrupts when unchecked."
Anne Brontë