Power Quotes

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Where there are people, there’s power.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

When did our need to overpower one another, outgrow our desire to love?

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.