Quotes about power

"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 on power   

"The property of power is to protect."

Pascal, Blaise on power   

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"The look of a king is itself a deed."

Paul, Jean on power   

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

Peter, Laurence J. on power   

"Power is every stealing from the many to the few."

Phillips, Wendell on power   

"Unlimited power corrupts the possessor."

Pitt, William on power   

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

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

Proverb on power   

"He who pays the piper calls the tune."

Proverb on power   

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

Proverb, Arabian on power   

"Voice of one, voice of none."

Proverb, Italian on power   

"The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could."

Proverb, Spanish on power   

"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 on power   

"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."

Rand, Ayn on power
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"He has the power who the majority believe in."

Raupach on power   

"I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on power   

"Personal power is the ability to take action."

Robbins, Anthony on power   

"We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on power   

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"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

Roosevelt, Theodore on power
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"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 on power   

"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it."

Rostand, Jean on power   

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

Rostand, Jean on power   

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

Russell, Bertrand on power   

"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on power   

"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on power   

"To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on power   

"No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on power   

"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act."

Schreiner, Olive on power   

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"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

Seneca on power   

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

Seneca on power   

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

Seneca on power   

"Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration."

Seneca on power   

"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."

Shakespeare, William on power   

"You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes."

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

Shaw, George Bernard on power
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"Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on power   

"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 on power   

"No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior."

Smith, Sydney on power   

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on power   

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

Steffens, Lincoln on power