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Power: Is it good or bad? See what these well-known people had to say about it.
(I should add that listing a quote here does not necessarily imply that I endorse or agree with the quote or the person who said it. Hopefully this will prevent future emails such as "OMG! I can't believe you added that quote from Cookie Monster!! Do you KNOW what Cookie Monster stands for?!?").
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. —Mahatma Gandhi
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. —Abraham Lincoln
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power. —John Steinbeck
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. —Paulo Freire
The measure of a man is what he does with power. —Plato
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. —Charles de Gaulle
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. —David Brin
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. —Elie Weisel
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. —Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
The object of power is power. —George Orwell, 1984
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. —George Orwell, 1984
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. —Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Knowledge is power. —Francis Bacon
In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it. —Leo Tolstoy
The steps of power are often steps on sand. —Edward Counsel, Maxims
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. —Henry Kissinger
One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy. —Ice-T
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. —Edmund Burke
With great power there must also come great responsibility! —Stan Lee
Absolute power was not meant for man. —William E. Channing, Thoughts
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, Lacon
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. —Tao Te Ching
If you can abuse your power you have too much. —Marty Rubin
Do the thing and you will have the power. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. —Honoré de Balzac
Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. —Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is. —E.J. Patten, Return to Exile
Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests. —Horacio Castellanos Moya
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. —Alice Walker
Calmness is the cradle of power. —J.G. Holland
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. —Henrik Ibsen
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them. —Amy Tan
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. —Margaret Thatcher
Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don’t. —Oskar Shindler
Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would! —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. —Seneca
O, it is excellent/To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous/To use it like a giant. —William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 2, Scene 2.
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