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

Bible

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Steinem, Gloria

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Rostand, Jean

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

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

Malcolm X

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

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

John Stuart Mill

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Amy Tan

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Boseley, Sarah

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Russell, Bertrand

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.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Tilly

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Steffens, Lincoln

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, Norse

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Henrik Ibsen

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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