Power Quotations And Sayings

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“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
– Plato

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all
of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
– Leo F. Buscaglia

“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
– Mikhail Bulgakov

“That’s what we all want, isn’t it? Power without price.”
– Kelley Armstrong

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
– Audre Lorde

“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Consider the black widow spider. It’s a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.”
– Tamora Pierce

“When people see you’re happy doing what you’re doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.”
– Wendy Mass

“Where there is power, there is resistance.”
– Michel Foucault

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
– George Orwell

“‘What more could you want? How about dominion over this ‘beautiful place’? Beauty doesn’t last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever’.
Jack answered with his gut. ‘No, love goes on forever’.”
– P.C. Cast

“Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.”
– Gregory Corso

“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”
– Ayn Rand

“You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”
– Giovanni Boccaccio

“In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.”
– John Ralston Saul

“Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.”
– Abigail Adams

“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

“The steps of power are often steps on sand.”
– Edward Counsel

“Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.”
– Dean Koontz

“Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.”
– Jacques Maritain

“It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.”
– Nicholas Black Elk

“Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
– Saul Alinsky

“Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.”
– Edmund Burke

“Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.”
– Ice-T

“The depositary of power is always unpopular.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.”
– George Washington

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