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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung
If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.
Emil Zatopek
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
Christopher Hitchens
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Aneurin Bevan
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Samuel Butler
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Plutarch
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
John F. Kennedy
And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.
Paul Ryan
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel Johnson
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
Jackie Kennedy
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Ayn Rand
I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
Nicole Kidman
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt
