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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
- Lincoln, Abraham
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Best Quotes about Power

1.
Will is character in action.
Mcdougall, William

2.
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Smith, Sydney

3.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

4.
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

5.
The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
Joseph Farrell

6.
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Thatcher, Margaret

7.
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
Mizner, Addison

8.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Billings, Josh

10.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Thatcher, Margaret

11.
Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
Banks, Harry F.

12.
A word after a word after a word is power.
Atwood, Margaret

13.
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

14.
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

15.
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
Hazlitt, William

17.
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Friedman, Milton

18.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

19.
Power is the by-product of understanding.
Bronowski, Jacob

20.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Hendrix, Jimi

21.
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
Eliot, T. S.

22.
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
Cotvos

23.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
Aldrich, Withrop

24.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Aeschylus

25.
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
Johnson, Lyndon B.

26.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Russell, Bertrand

27.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Kissinger, Henry

28.
Will it, and set to work briskly.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
Dworkin, Andrea

30.
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
Lindner, Robert

31.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Einstein, Albert

32.
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

33.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

34.
Man was predestined to have free will.
Luyah, Hal

35.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman

36.
I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.
Kazantzakis, Nikos

37.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Steinem, Gloria

38.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Bevan, Aneurin

39.
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

40.
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.

41.
Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Proverb, Chinese

43.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
Cecil, Richard

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

47.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Carnegie, Andrew

48.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Seneca

49.
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

50.
The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.
Shakespeare, William


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