power Quotes

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can’t control.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe,’ but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.