powers Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about powers.
“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”
- Friedrich August von Hayek
“They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.”
- Christian Nestell Bovee
“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
“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”
- Friedrich August von Hayek
“Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.”
- Richard M. Nixon
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”
- Helen Keller
“There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.”
- William Godwin
“I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.”
- Angela Davis
“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.”
- Aurelius, Marcus