Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old power quotes, power sayings, and power proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
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
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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. Max Lerner
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Power ought to serve as a check to power. John Milton
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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.Milton Friedman
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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.George Bernard Shaw
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.Adlai Stevenson I
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.Jonathan Swift
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The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.Mahatma Gandhi
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
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The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.William Booth
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People with power always take advantage of those without power.Christopher Pike
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Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.Frank Herbert
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With great power there must also come great responsibility!Stan Lee
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And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.E.J. Patten
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Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.Horacio Castellanos Moya
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Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't. Oskar Shindler
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.Henrik Ibsen
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.John Quincy Adams
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What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.Aristotle
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Power may be defined as the production of intended effects. It is thus a quantitative concept: given two men with similar desires, if one achieves all the desires that the other achieves, and also others, he has more power than the other.Bertrand Russell
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The power impulse has two forms: explicit, in leaders; implicit in their followers. When men willingly follow a leader, they do so with a view to the acquisition of power by the group which he commands, and they feel that his triumphs are theirs.Bertrand Russell
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The power impulse has two forms: explicit, in leaders; implicit in their followers. When men willingly follow a leader, they do so with a view to the acquisition of power by the group which he commands, and they feel that his triumphs are theirs.Bertrand Russell
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There is power over human beings and power over dead matter or non-human forms of life.Bertrand Russell
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Love of power, in its widest sense, is the desire to be able to produce intended effects upon the outer world, whethen human or non-human.Bertrand Russell
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Power has always been one of those words that everybody uses without necessarily being able to define satisfactorily.Dennis Hume Wrong
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Power is treated both as a quality or attribute possessed by individuals, groups, or larger social structures and as an indicator of an active or interactive process or relation between individual or collective actors.Dennis Hume Wrong
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Power is applied to physical phenomena and processes.Dennis Hume Wrong
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In recent years power has tended to become an even more diffuse and far-ranging notion in social and political theory.Dennis Hume Wrong
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Power is an essentially contested concept, meaning that people with difference values and beliefs are bound to disagree over its nature and definition.Dennis Hume Wrong