The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

16.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

17.

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

18.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

19.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

21.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

22.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

23.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

25.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

26.

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

27.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

28.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

29.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

30.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

31.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

32.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

33.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

34.

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

35.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

36.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

37.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

38.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

39.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

40.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

41.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

43.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

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

Malcolm X

45.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

46.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

48.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

49.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson