Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Quotes about power page 22
“Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Variant: that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
Source: City of Fallen Angels
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
Neil Strauss book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Source: The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (2005)
Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian
Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1991): "American Ideology" http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/AmericanIdeology_DI.html <br class="br">Context: If those in charge of our society — politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television — can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Speech at Amherst College
Context: When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.
Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth
Source: The Power of Myth (book), p. 28
Context: Now, what is a myth? The dictionary definition of a myth would be stories about gods. So then you have to ask the next question: What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power or a value system that functions in human life and in the universe - the powers if your own body and of nature.
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Black Blood
“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
“Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.”
Alexander Berkman book Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
Source: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
Letter to W.T. Barry http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch18s35.html (4 August 1822), in The Writings of James Madison (1910) edited by Gaillard Hunt, Vol. 9, p. 103; these words, using the older spelling "Governours", are inscribed to the left of the main entrance, Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building. <br class="br">1820s <br class="br">Context: A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) Jewish-American political theorist
" Thoughts on Politics and Revolution: A Commentary http://books.google.com/books?id=iMIPAQAAMAAJ&q=&quot;Revolutionaries+do+not+make+revolutions+The+revolutionaries+are+those+who+know+when+power+is+lying+in+the+street+and+when+they+can+pick+it+up+Armed&quot;". <br class="br">Crises of the Republic (1969)
“An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation”
Steven D. Levitt (1967) American economist
Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Sidney Poitier book The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Source: The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
“The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.”
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.”
Thomas Ligotti book Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Source: Songs of a Dead Dreamer
“What a curious power words have.”
Tadeusz Borowski book This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Source: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Robyn Davidson (1950) Australian writer
Source: Tracks
“gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books
“Knowledge itself is power.”
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Meditationes Sacræ [Sacred Meditations] (1597) "De Hæresibus" [Of Heresies]
Variants:
Scientia Ipsa Potentia Est.
Scientia potentia est.
Knowledge is power.
Scientia potestas est.
Scientia est potentia.
Source: Meditations Sacrae and Human Philosophy Meditations Sacrae and Human Philosophy
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
Variant: Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
David Deida (1958) American writer
Source: Intimate Communion
“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”
Alice Walker book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Source: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
“Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.”
Philip Yancey (1949) American writer
Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
“People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.”
Jim Butcher (1971) American author
Source: Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: The Awakening / The Struggle
L. Frank Baum book The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Source: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
John Stuart Mill book On Liberty
Source: On Liberty (1859), Ch. II: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
“Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.”
Andrew Motion (1952) poet, novelist and biographer from England
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.”
Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 13; often the final portion of this is quoted alone as: "Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)
Context: The Savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience; a readiness to attempt the impossible; a bias for simple solutions — to cut the knot rather than unravel it; the viewing of compromise as surrender; the tendency to manipulate people and "experiment with blood."
Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Source: (1962), Ch. 3 The Control of Money, p. 50
“The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense,
else what shall save us from a second slavery?”
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: The Fury / Dark Reunion
“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
Matthew Reilly (1974) Australian author
Source: Seven Deadly Wonders
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1930s, Wisehart interview (1930)
Context: I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!
“Do the thing and you will have the power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”
Robin Hobb (1952) American fiction writer (pseudonym)
“Patience mimics the power of infinity.”
Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer
Source: Rise of the Evening Star
“The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“Incredible cosmic powers do not equate with high IQ.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: Steelheart
“in this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Rises
“The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man”
José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
“… politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.”
Paul Krugman (1953) American economist
The Australian Financial Review, 6 September 2010, p. 15, "Time for Obama to abandon caution". Also seen in the Sacramento Bee http://www.sacbee.com/2010/09/04/3004829/obama-should-aim-high-on-stimulus.html