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

17.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

19.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

Carnegie, Dale

21.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

22.

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

23.

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

Tilly

24.

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

Capone, Al

25.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

28.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

29.

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

30.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

31.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

32.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

36.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

37.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

40.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

41.

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

42.

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

Henrik Ibsen

43.

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

Rostand, Jean

44.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

45.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Hazlitt, William

48.

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

Barthes, Roland

49.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.