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1. "Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat."

Hermann Göring, (radio broadcast)

Quotations about: Peace and War

2. "Nature has given women so much power that the law has wisely given them very little."

Samuel Johnson

Quotations about: Law and Crime -:- Woman and Man

3. "It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."

Aung San Suu Kyi

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Bravery and Fear

4. "Government: a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

George Washington

Quotations about: Authority, Government

5. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Edward Dahlberg

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Good and Evil

6. "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

Elie Wiesel

Quotations about: Justice

7. "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Helen Keller

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

8. "You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long."

Boris Yeltsin

Quotations about: Authority, Government

9. "My greatest weapon is mute prayer."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Oration and Silence

10. "We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."

Margaret Atwood

Quotations about: Woman and Man

11. "Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it."

William Pitt the Elder, (speech, House of Lords, Jan 9, 1770)

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

12. "The descent to hell is easy, and those who begin by worshipping power soon worship evil."

Clive Staples Lewis, "The Allegory of Love"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

13. "The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Quotations about: Good and Evil

14. "It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

Sir Edmund Hillary

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

15. "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

16. "We keep seeking our angel, demons come unsought."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Good and Evil

17. "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

Ferdinand Foch

Quotations about: Human -:- Peace and War

18. "Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."

Gloria Steinem

19. "The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

Abraham Lincoln

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

20. "Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; but they are the instruments of the wise."

Samuel Lover

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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21. "Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

22. "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Milan Kundera, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"

Quotations about: Memory

23. "Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."

Lewis Mumford

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

24. "Religion differs from magic in that it is not concerned with control or manipulation of the powers confronted. Rather it means submission to, trust in, and adoration of, what is apprehended as the divine nature of ultimate reality."

Joachim Wach , "The Comparative Study of Religions"

Quotations about: God and Religion

25. "Opinions have greater power than strength of hands."

Sophocles

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

26. "I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotations about: Art and Culture

27. "The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance."

Herman Melville, "Mardi"

Quotations about: Various

28. "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."

David Friedman

Quotations about: Peace and War -:- Politics and Diplomacy

29. "Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred."

Korean proverb

30. "The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Human

31. "Knowledge is the most democratic source of power."

Alvin Toffler, "The Democratic Difference"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

32. "Power tires only those who do not have it."

Giulio Andreotti

33. "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."

Saul Alinsky

34. "Justice is simply the advantage of the stronger."

Thrasymachus

Quotations about: Justice

35. "Power acquired by violence is only an usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey."

Denis Diderot, "Encyclopedia"

36. "Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance."

Hannah Arendt, "On Violence"

37. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man."

John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton

Quotations about: Authority, Government

38. "Whoever is new to power is always harsh."

Aeschylus, "Prometheus Bound"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

39. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Time and Passing

40. "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."

George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

41. "It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."

Walter Bagehot, "The English Constitution"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

42. "Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."

Aldous Huxley

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

43. "Liberal — a power worshipper without power."

George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

44. "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

P.J. O`Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

45. "Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic."

Henry Brooks Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

46. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-tse

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Love

47. "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

Colin Powell

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

48. "Fear is conquerable. Doubt is defeatable. Self worth is buildable."

Terri McPherson

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

49. "In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest."

Aesop

50. "Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

Brian Tracy

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

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