Quotes about power

"Let them hate, so long as they fear."

Accius on power
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Acton, Lord on power
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"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."

Adams, Abigail on power   

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

Adams, Henry Brooks on power
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"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."

Adams, John on power
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"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."

Aeschylus on power
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"The price of power is responsibility for the public good."

Aldrich, Withrop on power
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"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."

Alinsky, Saul on power
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"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on power
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"Power tires only those who do not have it."

Andreotti, Giulio on power
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"Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength."

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

Archimedes on power
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"A word after a word after a word is power."

Atwood, Margaret on power
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much."

Bacon, Francis on power
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"It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self."

Bacon, Francis on power
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"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."

Baldwin, James on power   

"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."

Balzac, Honore De on power   

"Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest."

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

Bannister, Roger on power   

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

Barthes, Roland on power   

"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 on power   

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent on power   

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

Bevan, Aneurin on power
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"What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?"

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

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

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

Billings, Josh on power   

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon on power   

"Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on power
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"If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world."

Boseley, Sarah on power   

"To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured."

Bristol, Claude M. on power   

"Power is the by-product of understanding."

Bronowski, Jacob on power
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"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 on power   

"Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on power   

"I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power."

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"Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief."

Burke, Edmund on power   

"Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers."

Byrnes, James F. on power