Quotes:Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
View quotes by Lord ActonPower corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
View quotes by John LehmanThe greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
View quotes by J Martin KoheThe only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
View quotes by Ayn RandPower 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.
View quotes by Hannah ArendtPower is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
View quotes by C Wright MillsTalent is that which is in a man's power! Genius is that in whose power a man is.
View quotes by James Russell LowellLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
View quotes by George OrwellI know some photographs that are extraordinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.
View quotes by Ansel Adams Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other (Gesammelte Werke)
View quotes by Carl Gustav JungThe silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations
View quotes by Henry GilesIf knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
View quotes by Letty CottinFor the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
View quotes by Matthew ArnoldMilitary power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars
View quotes by George CatlettBeliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
View quotes by Anthony RobbinsThe creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the 'creative' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
View quotes by Mary SartonWhen the power of love conquers the love of power then the world will know peace.
View quotes by Jimi Hendrix'Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take'
View quotes by Jock EwingIf you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
View quotes by Charles GordonWhen a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.
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