Power Quotes

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." "Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting" "Power is everywhere, not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere" "On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom" "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful" "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time" "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family" "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." "Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power." "I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good." "The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power." "High office teaches decision-making, not substance." "Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man." "Keep your plans as dark as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." "The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world." "Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." "The greater the state, the more wrong and injustice it commits" "Four legs good, two legs bad." "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."