Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People. - Benjamin Disraeli
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
Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved. - Elizabeth Lesser
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. - Henry Kissinger
Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent. - Alexander Lowen
Power should act and not talk. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall. - Frank Herbert
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whate'er it touches. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. - Bertrand Russell
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. - Theodor W. Adorno
The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government. - Abigail Adams
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. - Alice Walker
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it. - Edwin H. Land
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding. - Nicholas Black Elk
The steps of power are often steps on sand. - Edward Counsel
The supreme power tends to fall into the hands of men of the keenest intelligence and the most unscrupulous character. - James Frazer
The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable. - Guillermo del Toro
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. - James Madison
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful, is that they can take your life; but the same thing can be said of the most weak. - Charles Caleb Colton
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
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. - Charles Caleb Colton
We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers. - Genevieve Berhrend
Wealth was the short beer of existence. Power was champagne. - Stephen King
When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. - Tobias Wolfe
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