Power Quotes

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

25234 quotes

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"We make the world; we are not mere passive spectators."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"True power lies in the ability to help others."
Comte, Auguste
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"The greatest power is the power of ideas."
Comte, Auguste
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"Power without responsibility breeds tyranny."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Power reveals character."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Ideas are forces that shape our world."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Power is most stable when it rests on genuine understanding."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The highest human power is persuasion."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Power without wisdom is tyranny."
Comte, Auguste
C
"Power is the ability to improve the lives of others."
Comte, Auguste
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"The action of thought is the beginning of all power."
James, William
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"Survival of the fittest applies to nations as much as to animals."
Spencer, Herbert
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"The degree of power is the degree of pleasure."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Where reason fails, appetite takes over."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Power without wisdom becomes tyranny."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The pen is mightier than the sword, but both are tools of power."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."
Marx, Karl
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"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production."
Marx, Karl
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"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Marx, Karl
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"Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never did and it never will."
Marx, Karl
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"Power without enlightenment corrupts both ruler and ruled."
Comte, Auguste
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"Power justifies itself only through the welfare it produces for others."
Comte, Auguste
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community is to prevent harm to others."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Power without wisdom is the greatest danger to human progress."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Power corrupts, but wisdom redeems and transforms."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"I am not a man, I am dynamite."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"No power on earth can compare with the power of an idea whose time has come."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"The love of power is more universal than the love of money."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"The pen is mightier than the sword because it shapes the very thoughts that guide the sword."
Bentham, Jeremy