In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.
Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
He hath no power that hath not power to use.
We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces , is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind , the incarnation of the spirit .
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.
Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.
A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never.
Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]
Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.
I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones have power. A blade of grass has power. Trees and clouds and all our relatives in the insect and animal world have power. We believe we must respect that power by acknowledging it's presence. By honoring the power of the spirits in that way, it becomes our power as well. It protects us.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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