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Power !

  1. The way to have power is to take it. Boss Tweed
  2. The greatest power is not money power, but political power. Walter Annenberg
  3. No one has the power, or the right, to take anything away from us. James Taylor
  4. I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  5. I'm sure we have the power also to see things, but it's going to happen in many, many years. Monica Bellucci
  6. We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. Benjamin Hoff
  7. Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form. Michael Franti
  8. In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it. LEO TOLSTOY,
  9. Knowledge is power. FRANCIS BACON
  10. Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. ABIGAIL ADAMS
  11. Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor. GEORGE WASHINGTON,
  12. The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. EDMUND BURKE,
  13. The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government. ABIGAIL ADAMS
  14. I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
  15. 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! FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
  16. It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms. CHARLES CALEB COLTON
  17. Power has only one duty -- to secure the social welfare of the People. BENJAMIN DISRAELI
  18. Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. LORD ACTON
  19. It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. AUNG SAN SUU KYI
  20. Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
  21. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. GEORGE WASHINGTON
  22. Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there. HAROLD MACMILLAN
  23. The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you. ORSON SCOTT CARD
  24. Power tires only those who do not have it. GIULIO ANDREOTTI
  25. With great power there must also come ... great responsibility! STAN LEE
  26. The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding. NICHOLAS BLACK ELK
  27. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. SAUL ALINSKY
  28. Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue. EDMUND BURKE
  29. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Self Reliance," Essays
  30. Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. HENRY KISSINGER, And I Quote
  31. One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy. ICE-T
  32. The depositary of power is always unpopular. BENJAMIN DISRAELI
  33. I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  34. You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power. Major Owens
  35. Order is power. Henri Frederic Amiel
  36. If President Bush remains in power we will all be lost. Bianca Jagger
  37. I like power and I like to use it. Sam Rayburn
  38. Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. George W. Bush

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