1. All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche
2. Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. - Mahatma Gandhi
3. No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. - Denis Diderot
4. Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. - Michel Foucault
5. Power ought to serve as a check to power. - Montesquieu
6. There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. - Everett Dirksen
7. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain
8. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln
9. Force always attracts men of low morality. - Albert Einstein
0. The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein
11. I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
12. Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. - Friedrich Nietzsche
13. The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! - Friedrich Nietzsche
14. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. - Lao Tzu
15. What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. - Aristotle
16. Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. - Eleanor Roosevelt
17. Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson
18. I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. - Thomas Jefferson
19. Power is not alluring to pure minds. - Thomas Jefferson
20. Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. - Thomas Jefferson
21. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. - Frederick Douglass
22. There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. - John Muir
23. Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. - Leonardo da Vinci
24. Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. - Cesare Pavese
25. The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. - Bruce Lee
26. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. - Bruce Lee
27. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
28. Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. - Epictetus
29. He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command. - Niccolo Machiavelli
30. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington
31. All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo
32. Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. - Andrew Jackson
33. Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. - Margaret Thatcher
34. Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. - Ayn Rand
35. To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. - Ayn Rand
36. Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer
37. Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon
38. The greater the power, th
e more dangerous the abuse. - Edmund Burke
39. He who has great power should use it lightly. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
40. Every reign must submit to a greater reign. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
41. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
42. Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. - Benjamin Disraeli
43. Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. - Benjamin Disraeli
44. Character is power. - Booker T. Washington
45. There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. - Booker T. Washington
46. Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. - Blaise Pascal
47. Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. - Blaise Pascal
48. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. - William Wordsworth
49. Truth is powerful and it prevails. - Sojourner Truth
50. Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. - John Adams
51. Excessive fear is always powerless. - Aeschylus
52. Whoever is new to power is always harsh. - Aeschylus
53. Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. - Alice Walker
54. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker
55. The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. - Salvador Dali
56. In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power. - Pope Francis
57. Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. - Andrew Carnegie
58. But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. - Alan Watts
59. You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
60. My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
61. A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. - Henry Ward Beecher
62. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. - Robert A. Heinlein
63. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. - James Madison
64. When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. - Malala Yousafzai
65. I believe the gun has no power at all. - Malala Yousafzai
66. Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. - Ambrose Bierce
67. The eye sees what it brings the power to see. - Thomas Carlyle
68. Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. - Baruch Spinoza
69. It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. - Epicurus
70. Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner. - Cher
71. The power to question is the basis of all human progress. - Indira Gandhi
72. Order is power. - Henri Frederic Amiel
73. The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything. - David Ogilvy
74. 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 Dostoevsky
75. The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. - Anthony J. D'Angelo
76. Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. - Jonathan Swift
77. The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. - Eric Hoffer
78. Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. - Eric Hoffer
79. Politics is not about power. - Paul Wellstone
80. Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. - Edward Abbey
81. Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. - Abigail Adams
82. There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. - Erich Fromm
83. Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. - Honore de Balzac
84. Power is the great aphrodisiac. - Henry Kissinger
85. Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. - Charles de Gaulle
86. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. - Bernard Baruch
87. What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
88. Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. - Denis Diderot
89. An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. - Phaedrus
90. Power without a nation's confidence is nothing. - Catherine the Great
91. Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. - Friedrich Schiller
92. I cured with the power that came through me. - Black Elk
93. The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. - Aung San Suu Kyi
94. I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. - Oskar Schindler
95. Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. - Stendhal
96. What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? - Christopher Marlowe
97. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. - Phillips Brooks
98. No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. - Barbara De Angelis
99. Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. - Benazir Bhutto
100. Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. - Alvin Toffler
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