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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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Best Quotes about Power

1.
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
Seneca

3.
The one who wills is the one who can.
Proverb

4.
There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.
Roper, Elmo

5.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman

6.
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
Disraeli, Benjamin

7.
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Billings, Josh

8.
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.
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

11.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
Aldrich, Withrop

12.
By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.
Herrich

13.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet

14.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer

15.
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X

16.
Will is character in action.
Mcdougall, William

17.
In oratory the will must predominate.
Hare, David

18.
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

19.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Bevan, Aneurin

20.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Hoffer, Eric

21.
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

22.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Carnegie, Dale

23.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Hugo, Victor

24.
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

25.
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Thatcher, Margaret

26.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Mann, Horace

27.
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

28.
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe

29.
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

30.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Hendrix, Jimi

31.
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

32.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

33.
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

34.
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

35.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Macarthur, Douglas

36.
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
Camus, Albert

37.
He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
Seneca

38.
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.

39.
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
Proverb, Arabian

40.
When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
Aeschylus

41.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Shaw, George Bernard

42.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Jefferson, Thomas

43.
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Steffens, Lincoln

44.
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
Johnson, Lyndon B.

45.
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.
Hoffer, Eric

47.
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
Mencken, H. L.

48.
Personal power is the ability to take action.
Robbins, Anthony

49.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

50.
The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]
Bible


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