If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

What most people know but don’t realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn’t there, we’d be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

For me, education was power.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

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.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

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

Knowledge is power.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Power is competence.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.