3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
3 December 2020 Shakti Gawain When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
3 December 2020 Michael J. Fox I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don’t even know are available to us.
3 December 2020 Jean Rostand A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
3 December 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
3 December 2020 Sophie Swetchine There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
3 December 2020 George Mason In all our associations in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim – that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don’t.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
3 December 2020 Raymond Chandler Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
3 December 2020 Aristotle In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
3 December 2020 Jon Meacham The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
3 December 2020 Nido Qubein Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
3 December 2020 Rene Descartes When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
3 December 2020 George Washington Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
3 December 2020 Anne Bronte I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
