The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. – Winston Churchill
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. – John F. Kennedy
Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. – Edgar Allan Poe
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius
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
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? – Khalil Gibran
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. – Oprah Winfrey
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. – Aristotle
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. – Ronald Reagan
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. – Aristotle
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. – John F. Kennedy
Nothing external to you has any power over you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. – Lao Tzu
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. – Friedrich Nietzsche
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. – Carl Sagan
Power and speed be hands and feet. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. – Plato
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. – Swami Vivekananda