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 EsarA language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
Max WeinreichA single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
J.R.R. TolkienAll 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 HuxleyDemocracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. HarrisEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson MandelaFaith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
VoltaireFew 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. DeVosHe 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.
AristotleJust as we have the separation of church and state, we need the separation of state and big capital.
MinkukelKnowledge is power.
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
Stefan BanachNever underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. HeinleinNever underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Noblesse oblige.
(unknown author)French phrase that means "nobility oblige" and refers to the idea that those with higher social status, wealth, or power have also moral obligations to act with honor and responsibility.
Non-intellectual people overestimate the power of reason among intellectuals.
Jill Paton WalshSource: 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. RowlingSource: 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 WaalSource: 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 ReeseShe said "We don't need money when we've got us
Because power, it'll make any man weak I know"
The Black Heart ProcessionBecause power, it'll make any man weak I know"
Source: Even Thieves Couldn't Lie
Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
Ramez NaamThe Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew BrownThe most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
Dave BarryThe power of thought, the magic of the mind.
Lord ByronThe urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H.L. MenckenThere is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Quoted: You know who
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Victor HugoThere 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. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Gandalf
Quote from the movie
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
VoltaireUneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William ShakespeareWe think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.
Jason FriedWith great power there must also come great responsibility.
Stan LeeSource: Amazing Fantasy (The first Spider-Man story)