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

19.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

22.

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

Steinem, Gloria

23.

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

24.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

25.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

26.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

27.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

28.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Boseley, Sarah

34.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Rostand, Jean

37.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

38.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

39.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

41.

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

Eliot, T. S.

42.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

43.

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

44.

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

45.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

46.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.