You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

20.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

22.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

23.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

24.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

26.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

27.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

28.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

29.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

30.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

32.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

33.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

34.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

35.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

37.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

38.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

39.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

40.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

42.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

44.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

46.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

47.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

48.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

49.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

50.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus