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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
- Joseph Farrell
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Best Quotes about Power

1.
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

2.
The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]
Bible

3.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet

4.
Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
Banks, Harry F.

5.
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
Mencken, H. L.

6.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

7.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Rostand, Jean

8.
To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Rand, Ayn

9.
Voice of one, voice of none.
Proverb, Italian

10.
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
Cotvos

11.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Seneca

12.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Kissinger, Henry

13.
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

14.
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
Lois McMaster Bujold

15.
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

16.
By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.
Herrich

17.
Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.
Cousins, Norman

18.
When the will is ready the feet are light.
Proverb

19.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Hendrix, Jimi

20.
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
Proverb, Spanish

21.
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

22.
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
Camus, Albert

23.
Power tires only those who do not have it.
Andreotti, Giulio

24.
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

25.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

26.
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
Hamilton, Alexander

28.
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Capone, Al

29.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
Aldrich, Withrop

30.
No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Colton, Charles Caleb

31.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer

32.
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Alinsky, Saul

33.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.
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

35.
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

36.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel

37.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
Cecil, Richard

38.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.
The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.
Kinkel

40.
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
Syrus, Publilius

41.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall

42.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Carnegie, Dale

43.
Personal power is the ability to take action.
Robbins, Anthony

44.
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Friedman, Milton

45.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Bevan, Aneurin

46.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Covey, Stephen R.

47.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Steinem, Gloria

48.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Hooker, Richard

49.
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
Boseley, Sarah

50.
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


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