“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!”
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“There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.”
“Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
“My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.”
“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”
“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”
“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
“Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”
“Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.”
“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.”
“The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.”
“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.”
“Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.”
“Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.”
“Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.”
“Power is dangerous unless you have humility.”
“I cured with the power that came through me.”
“Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.”
“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.”
“Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.”
“The power of the people and the power of reason are one.”
“People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.”
“What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?”
“People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.”