Power Quotes

There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it’s about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.

The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Knowledge is power.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

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

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

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

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

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.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.