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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
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
Elie Wiesel
Quotations about: Justice
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
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
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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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
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
Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations about: Art and Culture
Herman Melville, "Mardi"
Quotations about: Various
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
Denis Diderot, "Encyclopedia"
Hannah Arendt, "On Violence"
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
George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Quotations about: Authority, Government
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