When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

22.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

24.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

25.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

26.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

27.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

30.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

32.

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

Alinsky, Saul

33.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

34.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

35.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

36.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

37.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

38.

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

39.

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

Swift, Jonathan

40.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

41.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

42.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

43.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

44.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

45.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

Mencken, H. L.

47.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

48.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

Billings, Josh

50.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb