Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

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

18.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Steinem, Gloria

20.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

21.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

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

23.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

26.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

27.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

29.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

30.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

32.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

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

35.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

36.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

38.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

39.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

40.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

41.

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

Alinsky, Saul

42.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Bannister, Roger

44.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

45.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

46.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

47.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

49.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]