Power Quotations
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| Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. | |||
| - Lord Acton | |||
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| Knowledge is power. | |||
| - Francis Bacon | |||
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| We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. | |||
| - Stephen Vincent Benét | |||
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| If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? | |||
| - Lois McMaster Bujold | |||
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| 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. | |||
| - Charles Caleb Colton | |||
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| The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. | |||
| - Joseph Farrell | |||
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| Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. | |||
| - Dr. Thomas Fuller | |||
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| 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. | |||
| - James A. Garfield | |||
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| 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. | |||
| - A Bartlett Giamatti | |||
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| The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. | |||
| - Baltasar Gracian | |||
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| The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. | |||
| - William Hazlitt | |||
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| It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. | |||
| - Eric Hoffer | |||
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| The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. | |||
| - Henrik Ibsen | |||
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| An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. | |||
| - Thomas Jefferson | |||
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| Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. | |||
| - Abraham Lincoln | |||
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| One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. | |||
| - John Stuart Mill | |||
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| Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. | |||
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |||
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| You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! | |||
| - Amy Tan | |||
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| Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. | |||
| - Woodrow Wilson | |||
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| Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power. | |||
| - Malcolm X | |||