POWER QUOTES

quotations about power

Power quote

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune

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Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

LORD ACTON

letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887

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Nothing unmasks a man like his use of power.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

DEAN KOONTZ

Brother Odd

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Power--a currency that never went out of style.

DAN SIMMONS

The Fall of Hyperion

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He who always plays for power will often stand on the neck of one person to reach his arms around the neck of another.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

LEO TOLSTOY

The Kingdom of God Is Within You

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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

Voltaire's Bastards

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Power has only one duty -- to secure the social welfare of the People.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Sybil

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

SAUL ALINSKY

"Tactics", Rules for Radicals

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To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism -- it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.

BARACK OBAMA

Nobel Lecture, December 10, 2009

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The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

JOHN ADAMS

A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law

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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

"The Democratic Charter", Man and the State

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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Freedom from Fear

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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

EDMUND BURKE

speech on the Middlesex Elections, 1771

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Power should act and not talk.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

DEMOSTHENES

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers


An empire built on power cannot attract the affections and loyalty that men bestow willingly on a regime of ideas and beauty.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Harkonnen

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Beware the power of the pajama-clad, Cheeto-eating, twitter, blogging hordes. We are legion!

RACHEL MADDOW

The Rachel Maddow Show, May 4, 2009

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Power is the exercise of superior force against a body that resists. Suppress the idea of resistance, and the idea of power disappears.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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