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 re….
It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of ….
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes..
Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody..
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world..
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it..
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain..
A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste..
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power..
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions..
Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on gove….
It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it..
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power ….
Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so….
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver..
Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it..
Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace..
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them..
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me….
To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox..
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish..