If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God? [Paraphrasing Lord Acton, presumably]
George DeaconLove, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah ArendtEcological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.
Ernest BeckerPower 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 FoucaultTo have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
George MacDonaldIdealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous HuxleyThe man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel JohnsonI put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. (Leviathan)
Thomas HobbesThe obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
Ruth GinsburgOh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt WhitmanOther passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation
MontaigneMagnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
Dave BarryWhen one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry MillerThe four rural counties in the district also received wind and rain damage and experienced power outages affecting thousands of families.
Jo BonnerI felt the power of Anfield, it was magnificent
Jose MourinhoAn unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Daniel WebsterCommunism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. (Report to 7th Congress, 1920)
LeninWomen who acquire power are more likely to be criticised for it than are the men who have always had it.
Carolyn HeilbrunWhen it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
Michael EndeClay is and always has been my favourite surface. It is not only a test of your tennis to play on this but also your strength, patience and willpower in a long match.
Alex CorretjaThe spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
Matt BluntThere is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett MardenIn the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits
Robert HallThe right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas HobbesMaybe when I turn 60... I'll have the power to speak to people and make them tremble a bit [on Alex Ferguson]
Jose MourinhoBeware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
Edgar Lee MastersThe writers of the Indian philosophies will survive, when the British dominion in India shall long have ceased to exist, and when the sources which it yielded of wealth and power are lost to remembrances
Warren HastingsThe number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
Steve BallmerWhen I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business
Pierre OmidyarYou may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
Barbara BushPower doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know you have it.
Ralph EllisonCollectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.
Michael JefferyThere is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
Brian KoslowThe music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.
Gilbert ParkerThe reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George EliotIn a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
Mary RobinsonIf you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles GordonWhen you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.
James FixxI have no wish to be disrespectful to the Scots. But it is outrageous that I as an English MP can be outvoted on issues such as Oxfordshire's NHS without corresponding powers the other way.
Boris JohnsonDeep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett MardenNobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice WalkerThough they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the power to do so
JuvenalA witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power
George MeredithAs a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
James FulbrightOur appearance is a powerful communication tool, sending messages to every sighted person. Everyone is highly influenced by the visual impression of a person they are meeting for the first time
Catherine BellTo take away life is a power which the vilest of the earth have in common; to give it belongs to gods and kings alone
MetastasioToday the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormickResponsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
Ariel DorfmanNot even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Tom Wolfe
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