POWER QUOTES VII

quotations about power

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

attributed, The Dance of Life

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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Farthest Shore

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Power never takes a back step -- only in the face of more power.

MALCOLM X

Malcolm X Speaks

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God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune

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The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

WOODROW WILSON

letter to Mary A. Hulbert, September 21, 1913

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The steps of power are often steps on sand.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Words frequently surrender power to the opposer.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Give me power but for a single day, and it is mine forever.

SEMIRAMIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

MAHATMA GANDHI

The Indian States' Problem

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Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves.... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.

SANAYA ROMAN

Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation


So long as there is an uneasy class, a class which has not its just power, it will rashly clutch and blindly believe the notion that all men should have the same power.

WALTER BAGEHOT

The English Constitution

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Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Waiting for the Barbarians

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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

letter to Mr. Leiper, June 12, 1815

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

HENRY KISSINGER

And I Quote

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Nothing is more untrue than the famous saying of an ancient historian, that power is retained by the same arts by which it is acquired; untrue at least for men, though truer in the case of nations.

LORD ACTON

letter to Mary Gladstone, June 1, 1880

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Power is superior to mere literature.

GREGORY I

attributed, Day's Collacon


Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

CARL SAGAN

The Demon-Haunted World

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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

URSULA K. LE GUIN

A Wizard of Earthsea

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