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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

19.

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

Capone, Al

20.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

21.

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

Malcolm X

22.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

23.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Apocrypha

25.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

26.

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

27.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Proverb, Norse

29.

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

Bannister, Roger

30.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

31.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

32.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

33.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

34.

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

Boseley, Sarah

35.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

36.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

37.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

38.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

40.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

41.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

42.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

47.

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

Seneca

48.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

49.

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