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.

• 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.

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

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