Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

Richard Paul Evans

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Robert A. Heinlein

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Robert Hall

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

Richard Mentor Johnson

Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power.

Ronnie Montrose

I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

Roy Romer

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

Saffron Burrows

I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.

Sarah Steelman

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

Simone Weil

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Thomas Fuller

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Toni Morrison

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

Virginia Woolf

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

Whittaker Chambers

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Wole Soyinka

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

William Thomas Stead

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Alvin Toffler

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Clive James