“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
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“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”
“Money: power at its most liquid.”
“I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.”
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
“The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.”
“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”
“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
“Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.”
“The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!”
“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”
“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”
“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.”
“Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”
“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
“But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.”
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
“Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.”
“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.”
“Whoever is new to power is always harsh.”
“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”
“The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.”