Who’s the boss? Here is a collection of proverbs and quotes about power and powerful.
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A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn’t fit.Evan Esar
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.Max Weinreich
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.J.R.R. Tolkien
All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time.Aldous Huxley
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.Sydney J. Harris
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.Voltaire
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.Richard M. DeVos
He who pays the piper calls the tune.The person who pays for something can decide how the money is spent.
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.Aristotle
Just as we have the separation of church and state, we need the separation of state and big capital.Minkukel
Knowledge is power.
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.Stefan Banach
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.Robert A. Heinlein
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Non-intellectual people overestimate the power of reason among intellectuals.Jill Paton Walsh
Source: The Late Scholar: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate
Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Quoted: Dumbledore
Political leaders have a habit of concealing their power motives behind nobler desires such as a readiness to serve the nation and improve the economy.Frans de Waal
Source: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick; a shadow on the wall.(unknown author)
Source: Game of Thrones
Quoted: Varys
Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.Charley Reese
Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.Ramez Naam
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.Andrew Brown
The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.Dave Barry
The power of thought, the magic of the mind.Lord Byron
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Quoted: You know who
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will, and he does not share power.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Gandalf
Quote from the movie
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.Voltaire
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.William Shakespeare
We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.Jason Fried
With great power there must also come great responsibility.Stan Lee
Source: Amazing Fantasy (The first Spider-Man story)
