Too Much Power Quotes

…we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come to an end as soon as possible.

If you try to pull too much power through too soon, you will injure yourself.

You don’t just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

There’s no such thing as too much power!

I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done. I forgive myself, thought Fire. Today, I forgive myself.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

There is no such thing as too much snow.

Bad as “independence” is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System – an admirable system if conducted in the public interest – is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves’ actions.

The problem is that corporations have way too much power in Congress and the government and they’re rigging the system so that they don’t pay taxes, but we do. We pay for all these crazy wars they come up with.