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.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

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?

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.

Respect your efforts respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt that's real power.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption or both.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

The power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power that's totally nonsense.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction to wit: by consolidation of power first and then corruption its necessary consequence.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

I not events have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day today and I'm going to be happy in it.

The law has no power over heroes.

The way to have power is to take it.