Power Quotes

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.