It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

24.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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

26.

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

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

36.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Lindner, Robert

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

40.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

41.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

Fromm, Erich

46.

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

Amy Tan

47.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

48.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster