Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

The only thing that white people have that black people need or should want is power-and no one holds power forever.

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.

Hateful is the power and pitiable is the life of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities a reevaluation of our values a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first a feeble spark next a flickering flame then a mighty blaze ever increasing in speed and power.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say 'Can he name a kitten?'

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do especially in Philadelphia in 1787 four months they argued about what a House should be what a Senate should be the power of the president the Congress the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong wrong will generally be done.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he if he had the power would be justified in silencing mankind.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy without pollution or global warming.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power in number in pride in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true we ought to follow what is most probable.