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

21.

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

Proverb

22.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

23.

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

Hazlitt, William

24.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

25.

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

Friedman, Milton

26.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

27.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

28.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

29.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

30.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

32.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

33.

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

Bannister, Roger

34.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

35.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

36.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

37.

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

Steinem, Gloria

38.

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

Proverb, Norse

39.

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

40.

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

Carnegie, Dale

41.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

43.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

45.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

46.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.