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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
- Harry Shearer
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Best Quotes about Power

1.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Bevan, Aneurin

2.
Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.
Proverb

3.
The point of power is always in the present moment.
Hay, Louise L.

4.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill

5.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

6.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Marden, Orison Swett

8.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Thatcher, Margaret

9.
Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
Banks, Harry F.

10.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian

11.
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid

12.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Aeschylus

13.
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Hooker, Richard

15.
The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.
Bannister, Roger

16.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
Cecil, Richard

17.
Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.
Tilly

18.
A word after a word after a word is power.
Atwood, Margaret

19.
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.
Man has will, but woman has her way.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.
Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
Malcolm X

22.
The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.
Kinkel

23.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
Hazlitt, William

24.
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis

25.
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

26.
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Friedman, Milton

27.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

28.
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.
What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
Bible

30.
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

31.
In oratory the will must predominate.
Hare, David

32.
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Morgenthau, Hans J.

33.
Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.
Apocrypha

34.
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
Dworkin, Andrea

35.
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

36.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

37.
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Alinsky, Saul

38.
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
Vaneigem, Raoul

39.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Carnegie, Dale

40.
I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.
Kazantzakis, Nikos

41.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
Patton, George S.

42.
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Macmillan, Harold

43.
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
Byrnes, James F.

44.
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
Barthes, Roland

45.
No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Colton, Charles Caleb

46.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Macarthur, Douglas

47.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Bacon, Francis

48.
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

49.
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

50.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Nehru, Jawaharlal


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