I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
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.
Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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.
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.
Excessive fear is always powerless.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.
Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a cicle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle.
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
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.
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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