When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
- Audre Lorde
Power is the ability not to have to please.
- Elizabeth Janeway
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
- Blaise Pascal
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
- Henry Miller
The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.
- Cesar Chavez
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
- Honore de Balzac
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
- Freda Adler
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
- Frederick Douglass
We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
- Unknown
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
- Gloria Steinem
Never underestimate the power of the irate customer.
- Unknown
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
- Meryl Streep
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
- Mahatma Gandhi
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
- Jacob Bronowski
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.
- Unknown
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
- Herbert Marcuse
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The right is not created in the exercise of power, but if the right does not have the power to become established, then power will rule of itself.
- Kenneth Patton
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Trine
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
- William E. Gladstone
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
- Stephen Vincent Benet
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
- Roseanne Barr
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
- Thomas Paine
A cult is a religion with no political power.
- Thomas Wolfe
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
- William Plomer
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
- Theodore Bikel
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
- Elie Wiesel
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
- Charles Dudley Warner
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
- Unknown
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
- Freda Adler
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species - man - acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
- Rachel Carson
