Quotes About Power

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.